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Can American Democracy Survive the "Fake News" Crisis
 So, how should America deal with media that purports to be "news" but, in fact, is offering a healthy serving of spin, misdirection, and outright lies? if you have any additional ideas, what are they? Can a nation survive as a democratic republic without an honest and trusted news ecosystem? Is it an actual fact that truthful and reliable news — combined with the kind of cultural trust people have in both government and each other as the result of a shared reality — are both historic and necessary preconditions for a democracy to work at all? Thomas Jefferson once famously said that if he was given the ultimatum of choosing to live in a functioning nation without newspapers or a place with newspapers but no national government, he'd surely choose the latter. It was a statement of his generation's love of newspapers, literature, and free speech far more than the anti-government spin that rightwingers try for when quoting the author of the Declaration of Independence. No republic in the history of the world had ever survived without an informed, participating electorate, and this nation's Founders knew it. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Friday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Can American Democracy Survive the "Fake News" Crisis
Quote: " Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson.
It's Anything Goes Friday!
5 YR Old Expelled from Christian School For Having Gay Parents- Can So-Called-Christianity Get Any More Cruel?
Quote: " We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin. Tweet: " Let's see...
*Trump — in financial trouble — steals national security documents from the White House that would be worth billions of dollars to several foreign governments.
*18 months later, Saudi Arabia gives $2 billion to the Trump family..." by Thom Hartmann. Quote: " Nothing epitomises market failures more than the cost of insulin" - Gavin Newsom. Quote: " History is bunk" - attributed to Henry Ford. Quote: " Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell. Article: " Federalist 68" by Alexander Hamilton. " The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States."
Hour Two: There's are YUGE Pro-Democracy Protest Happening in Brazil - Will Bolsonaro Survive the Authoritarianism Dictatorship He Set Up?
What Trump and Orbán want: It's fascism — it's not a metaphor or a joke
Tweet: " Let's see...
*Trump — in financial trouble — steals national security documents from the White House that would be worth billions of dollars to several foreign governments.
*18 months later, Saudi Arabia gives $2 billion to the Trump family..." by Thom Hartmann.
Hour Three: Climate Change & Arctic Warming: What Starts in the Arctic Doesn't Stay on the Arctic...
Quote: " We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." - Abraham Lincoln. Tweet: " Question of the day:
Given that Trump left the WH in financial trouble with nuclear weapons documents worth billions to foreign governments, and the Saudis just gave his family $2 billion, what might he have stashed in Ivana's grave on the 1st hole of his golf course? ;)" by Thom Hartmann. |
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
How does a narcissistic sociopath/psychopath behave when cornered? Should we be worried? (...and are we talking about Trump? Or, Putin?!) I'll ask Dr. Justin Frank MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - George Washington University / Author - Trump on the Couch (Previous books include Bush on the Couch & Obama on the Couch)
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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