Reply #38: Please see my comments up-thread. I agree somewhat with your...

[SteveM]

comments about the inappropriateness of disrupting Congressional hearings. But there is a bigger problem: since the Top 40 is gone, major dailies are fading into homogeneous coverage and the Big 3 broadcasters have become just another cable outlet, where is a "community" of interests going to develop and how will these interests be "legitimized?" Like them or not, the old T.V. monopoly, the Top 40, the newspapers all had the power to identify and legitimize political change. With the rise of Internet blogging (even around political issues), how can a community rise above the fray and how would it look?

Code Pink is "old school" in the final analysis; yet they can rise above the "new school." Maybe we should take a lesson.