"How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign"

[KoKo]

14. Again...thanks for that view....

I think it's complicated and if we "out here" had more personal relationships with those who are power brokers we might learn to have more "empathy" from the personal experience and come to know them as "real people" with family obligations and the rest in the context of their lives.

But...as it is...we get the views they represent according to who they are affiliated with and so judge from the TUBES from a C-Span Think Tank view.

I trust your judgement on this. Still....it does become a "friends and insiders" thing that we out here in America are becoming increasingly detached from being able to participate in or to know those involved, the human element and therefore to have the compassion we might if they were friends of us or even just aquaintances of us with a remote connection.

BTW: GO HELEN THOMAS! (I love her!) Just wanted you to know that your posts are valued here by many of us and I do understand where you are coming from and value your insight into folks that most of us out here will never have the option of knowing. Your "insider view" makes it all human and down to earth and food for thought.

Thanks!