The non partisan lesson from Obama's meeting with the GOP. [View All]

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Yesterday demonstrated conclusively how supportive of democracy television could be had it not been turned into the main huckster for a consumer economy. The information content contained in that hour and a half far surpassed a month of cable news preening pols and bloviating pundits. It ought to spark a debate on how to create similar events and how to assure that the sophisticated communication assets we possess are harnessed to butress self government not just sell viagra.
MSNBC deserves huge kudos for turning over its Friday schedule to cover the meeting. It eschewed the standard TV practice of slicing and dicing complex issues into 26 second sound bites which only obscure rather than illuminate issues. Good on you Chris, Keith and Rachel.