Roshi Pejhan

Democracy Takes a Hit on the Campaign Trail

by Roshi Pejhan
Community Outreach & Development, The WIP
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Harold Bloom’s summation of “the poor state of the nation” in Eva Solhman’s article last week shone a light on the ailing political health of the United States. The validity of his concern over the state of the media in this country could not have been more perfectly demonstrated than in last week’s legal drama over NBC’s Democratic debate in Nevada. With what was essentially the locking-out of congressional representative and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich from the nationally broadcast debate, democracy took a hit. All the arguments about media and censorship became once again relevant, from media’s ties to corporate interests to how democracy should be implemented through the powerful thunder of the people’s voice and not in our courts.
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