Responsibility of Information

More then ever before in American politics raw information and data is available to the public. We no longer have to rely on media outlets as a source of our information. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Can the public be responsible with this information as much as journalist are? This reminds me of another time in history when the Catholic Church would not put the Bible in the language of the commoner. Instead it was only in Latin and only Priest were allowed to have a Bible. It was feared that the public would miss interpret the bible because they lacked the proper training that the priest had. This gave the priest even more power over their congregations, leading to corruption and abuse of that power. In the end Martin Luther gave the bible to the people and one of his translations became the first book published on a printing press.

I think a growing number of people want more information then what the journalist are able to give us. News is compressed into short 1 or 2 min summaries and one of the few outlets to get more of a complete story is on the internet. There is a place for the journalist and a place for the internet. Because in the end the individual is responsible to seek out the information that is required to make a decision on a candidate.

Kyle