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Date/Time 15 Mar 2014 7:52:54pm
I'm quite shocked that, amongst all this intellectual discussion, not a mention was made of the role of *journalism* in all this.

The "media" was mentioned, in passing, but it is journalism which has always been the interpreter between the people and the manipulative rhetoric (and often outright deception) of political parties.

We seem to be in an age journalistic decline, where the only institutions that offer any sort of balanced analysis are the BBC, ABC, etc. Newspapers and commercial TV have long since died as a source of actual information.

Journalism is an ESSENTIAL part of the democratic process, yet it was not even mentioned here. Without someone holding policies up to the light, and taking politicians to task, in the name of truth and rational debate, there IS no democracy.
