"... we have to be able to admit to the obvious here... with an ignorant electorate and politicians ever willing to manipulate truth to serve purposes less than truthful the necessary intermediary between these two is an objective press willing to ask difficult and objectively purposeful questions of power... if the press is absent in this regard because of a mitigating preference for a specific outcome that favors the ruling power, then you have a problem... the people for various reasons are incapable of coming to just conclusions without help... if the help is tainted by prejudices that have nothing to do with what is just and are only meant to serve an agenda that the people do not fully understand, then of what use is your democracy?..."
