Uncle Ralph
2008-06-22 07:58:40
In 1904 Joseph Pulitzer famously predicted, “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.”
JP, of course, did not reckon on a blogosphere rising to supplant “dead-tree” journalism in the latter’s days of decay. For the sake of Our Republic, this is a good thing
