Sunday, March 06, 2011

Astroturfing Undermines Democracy

Cannonfire--Astroturf Wars:

"...Astroturfing may be the most important story of our time. Astroturfing insured the election of Obama. Even if our current president had a change of heart and decided to take real action on the economy, he couldn't do it -- because the sowers of doubt and mistrust would create a public firestorm of reaction.

Astroturfing is the great failure of democracy -- one which the authors of the Federalist papers could not foresee."

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