“Newsroom” star Emily Mortimer: Americans are dangerously uninformed

Salon ^ | 22 June 2012 | Willa Paskin

[Rummyfan]

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I can remember when Bush got in for the second time, just feeling like so much of the problem about the way that politics go here is that people are improperly informed. That they didn’t know that they had been lied to, or they didn’t understand exactly to what extent they had been, and they still thought that there were weapons of mass destruction. And that was just crazy to me that people could be so under-informed. I do think that there’s a difference in America to where I’m from. There’s so much wrong with England, but I think people are informed in general. I’m going to make a huge sweeping statement, but you just get the news much more [in England]. Listening to radio stations that play pop music all day and all night, the news will come on every two hours, foreign news too. It’s part of your daily routine, being informed about what’s going on in the world. Whether you like it or not, you can’t really escape it. I don’t think the same is true here, and television broadcast news especially seems to me to be a pretty dicey area. You can’t rely on getting the facts, or getting them presented in a way that is actually objective and makes sense and puts people in a position where they can make informed decisions about who to vote for.

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[newzjunkey]

Funny thing, Emily, the only people who felt lied to where the ones who hated Bush just for breathing.

Those of us who were well-informed knew the score, knew how the president was mislead by George "slam dunk" Tenet. We also knew Tom DeLay was a liar claiming the budget was 'fat free'.

A well-informed People is the enemy of the Democrat Party and its well-worn tactics of division, dissembling and distraction.