I would far prefer to pick and choose amongst various choices of information, than to have what I am supposed to accept as fact spoon-fed to me by the likes of Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and Katie Couric.
And it will be better for us as a country. If we had begun this process in 1945, we would be in better shape now.
What existed then that doesn’t exist now was a journalistic tenet that journalists should strive for objectivity in the reporting of the news (notice I did not say editorials, but news articles). The Leftists journalism professors now teach that writers should try “to change the world” when they write the news, “since there’s no such thing as objectivity anyway.” The result is that important stories don’t get reported at all if they weaken the editor’s political point of view, or he distorts the truth disgracefully. Today, important stories are not getting reported at all by the main stream media. For instance the fact that the Social Security Administration has just stated that there is no record in its archives of an application for Obama’s supposed social security number, a fact I just read here on Free Republic. If journalists had not become political functionaries, that would have been front page everywhere.