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Friday, July 14, 2006: She said, they said
Doc, When you approvingly quote this:
Another way to go would be to launch a laboratory for Citizen Journalism. That city must have the highest percentage of under-utilized intelligence of any city in America, with so many early retirees and their spouses and kids hanging out in ranchettes and seaside palaces, cashing their dividend checks instead of doing what made them rich in the first place. I think you expose the great gaping hole in the practice (and maybe the theory) of citizen journalism: It doesn't represent most citizens. The idle rich are unlikely to have the same interests (in at least two senses of the word) as the vast majority of citizens. Neither are the other group likely to have lots of time to contribute: The voluntarily poor. I've spent some time around both trust fund kiddies and professionally broke hippies (to say nothing of trust fund hippies), and while they can be very good friends (the former will buy you dinner and the latter will help you move), they aren't who I want helping me understand why education is underfunded and health care is unaffordable. There are responses to this message:
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