A Functional Press
I love how our press is capable of skepticism -- but only when they're writing ledes about ANOTHER country's leader. From an AP piece about Russian President Vladimir Putin:
"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin fired darts from a crossbow at a gray whale off Russia's Far Eastern coast on Wednesday in the latest in a series of man-versus-nature stunts designed to cultivate the image of a macho leader."Imagine if they showed that kind of domestic literary conciseness. "Obama/Bush hypes war majority of public doesn't support with factually-dubious rhetoric" etc. This country's press is broken. Look at the lead up to any war. Look at the coverage of the financial meltdown. If the AP wrote about Bush/Obama stage shows so precisely, they'd be brought up on charges and accosted as unpatriotic.
Step 1: address corporate financial influence on policy.
Step 2: yell at our press until they remember their job is to report the truth, not some noxious mish-mash of safe, "he said, she said" reporting.
Step 3. Margaritas.