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Uploaded by BucknellPodsquad on Nov 5, 2007
Benjamin Barber meets Podsquad reporter Angela Remeika at Bucknell University where he is giving the third lecture in the series entitled Citizen and Politics in America
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Some lecture notes:
-Histories of democracy and free media largely parallel
-Without citizens, constitution and bill of rights are just pieces of paper
-Citizens aren't born, they're made
-Voting is relatively small part citizenship
-Media is critical "fourth estate" of a democratic system
-Domination by commercial interests is opposed to democracy, as is totalitarianism, theocracy, etc
-Every election cycle we ask: "Who's going to save us from the last 4 years?" The answer is no one (but us)
ray4ev 4 years ago
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Some lecture notes:
-Histories of democracy and free media largely parallel
-Without citizens, constitution and bill of rights are just pieces of paper
-Citizens aren't born, they're made
-Voting is relatively small part citizenship
-Media is critical "fourth estate" of a democratic system
-Domination by commercial interests is opposed to democracy, as is totalitarianism, theocracy, etc
-Every election cycle we ask: "Who's going to save us from the last 4 years?" The answer is no one (but us)
ray4ev 4 years ago