Start asking yourself the question, is your watching television this afternoon, tonight,

whatever it may be?

Is this a conversation about an issue that actually affects us?

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Spend, the Tom Harman program, the David Pakman show, Democracy Now, the Ralph Nader Radio

Hour and on the Media.

At Fair, we never tire of saying the primary measure of media in an election is not how fair

they are to this or that candidate, but how fair they are to the people.

All of the people who are affected by the outcome of this particular process, such as it

is, and need to see how it functions in relation to them and their needs and concerns.

The people are the story and how they are represented by a process that's sustainably

intended to do that.

That corporate media don't see things that way is indicated by the resounding disinterest

with which they greeted a poll from the Associated Press, Norck Center for Public Affairs Research.

The survey from mid-May found fully 90% of voters lack confidence in the country's political

system.

40% describe it as seriously broken.

70% equal proportions of Democrats and Republicans say they are frustrated by this election, 55% describe

themselves as helpless.

Only 17% think the Democratic Party is open to new ideas, 10% say that of Republicans,

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