Hm.
True, those who are motivated can seek out a more full understanding of what's happening in the world. But here, at least, there are still a heck of a lot of people who get their news from broadcast media, which will run off together and focus for weeks on some celebrity trial or one missing person and then not bother to cover what's going on in the legislature. It's maddening.

Part of why I wish the broadcast folks would make more of an attempt to cover pending legislation or give more broad analysis of world events is that so many people will only seek news from sources they match politically. And then we end up with situations like we had in the US where people who planned to vote for Bush often assumed he supported the policies they supported, when he often did not (that PIPA report about separate realities).