1.0 link 97538 <![CDATA[No YouTube Left Behind]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-fisher/no-youtube-left-behind_b_97538.html The most discredited bromide in American civic life is: "Give the American people the facts, and they will make the right decisions."

But who is giving them the facts?

Fox News? Rush Limbaugh? Bill O'Reilly? Lou Dobbs? The hysterical Chris Matthews?

I don't think so. These people are entertainers pitching themselves as journalists.

Or maybe the fact-gatherers are ABC's Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, who spent the first 50 minutes of the last Obama-Clinton debate asking non-questions for which they surely...

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