[CLUE-Talk] Political compass

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:24, Matt Gushee wrote:

> P.S.: I think the proposition Sean is referring to is:
> 
>   The growing fusion between information and entertainment is a worrying
>   contribution to the public's shrinking attention span.

I agree with Sean, I don't think that issue is really a
libertarian/authoritarian or left/right issue. I was watching a show on
"The WB" last night and noticed that the lead "news" story being
promoted all night was the opening of "Matrix: Revolutions" -- hardly
what anyone would consider news. (Note that Warner Brothers is the, or
one of the, main financiers of The Matrix movies, if I'm not mistaken.)

I think a lot of people are troubled by this sort of thing, and I don't
think you can really draw lines according to "left" and "right" or
"libertarian" and "authoritarian" to find the correlation. 

Zonker
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