Archive for August, 2012

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What if We Couldn’t Write to You Anymore

What if We Couldn’t Write to You Anymore My old pal, Dan Denning, wrote a great article in a recent Daily Reckoning. If you haven’t seen it you can click here to read it now. In it, Dan takes a stab at an article by the federal MP for Bendigo, Steve Gibbons. In short, Mr Gibbons says media standards have dropped, and the press isn’t living up to the right standards. Mr Gibbons writes: ‘But participatory democracy only works if the people are given sufficient, accurate information about an issue for them to make up their own minds what they