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...ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITOR SEWELL CHAN '98 WIRE EDITOR SEWELL CHAN '98 FEATURE EDITOR ANDREW L. WRIGHT '96 STORY EDITORS EVAN J. EASON '96 GEOFFREY C. HSU '96 ANDREW L. WRIGHT '96 DESIGN EDITORS MONTIRA HORAYANGURA '97 JOSHUA J. SCHANKER '98 SPORTS EDITOR MATT HOWITT '97 EDITORIAL EDITOR DAN ALTMAN '96 PHOTO EDITORS ANDREW K. SACHS '97 ELIZABETH A. SQUIRES '95-'96 ON-LINE EDITOR KEVIN S. DAVIS '98 BUSINESS EDITORS FREDERICK...
Poor Daniel Altman. He was born too late. His heart yearns for the "activistic" [sic] '60s. Those were high days; ours are low and apathetic, he writes ("The Passive Nation," column, May 1, 1995). But are they...
...Altman thinks most Americans are uniformed about important political issues. This is the fault of the media, who keep us in the dark by plying us with trashy entertainment disguised as news. What we need is five minutes a day of reporting on Congress, something that could be required of every network, Altman proclaims...
Nonsense. Altman may spend his time watching "The Gordon Eliot Show" or Connie Chung's latest deceptions, but the rest of us get more news than we can stand. Every hour on the hour nearly every radio station gives us all the latest from Washington, D.C. and Beacon Hill. And then we have the nightly news, reporting on the latest political events every evening. I swear if I have to hear any more about the Contract With America I am going to bust. Or maybe change the channel. The last thing we need is a mandatory five minutes of Newt...
...Altman thinks this means that we "are content to let others make decisions for [us]." The facts are just the opposite. Americans want to take power back from Washington so that we can make our own decisions. We are tired of the national government deciding what prayers our children may say in school, what sorts of people deserve our compassion and what means we can use to defend ourselves from criminals. Learning that there are more important things than the national government is the first step in taking back control of our lives. Altman may think this view myopic...