do we live in a cartoon?

remember when people used to think that teachers, professors and journalists were working on behalf of the little guy? and that they had knowledge of things unavailable to the little guy, but that they would pass on in the little guy's interest? remember when we used to pay people to be experts to make our lives better through information and thinking? remember when people used to distrust the rich and powerful?

Also, remember when William Bennett had a gambling problem? here are some exerpts from his responses to CNN readers' questions:

Is there a bias in the mainstream media against the Republican Party?
Mike Malloy, Paradise, California

BENNETT: Yes. And it is demonstrable. Survey after survey of powerhouse journalists -- on television, in newspapers and magazines -- show a clear liberal predisposition.

also, earlier in the interview he says:

It is fashionable in some precincts to condemn the United States. We have not been popular in the Middle East for many years, and the university class (in Europe, especially) has a "sophisticated" view that is aped by academia in much of the U.S. professoriate.

that's funny--it was just today over lattes that i and my colleagues, that is, we of the professoriate, were chucklingly condemning the U.S., since other, poorer, more violent countries seem to be soooooo much better. whoops, gotta go, my favorite powerhouse journalist Stone Phillips is leading a bunch of us to go have abortions (even those of us who aren't pregnant--what the heck?) followed by some flag burning and of course, lattes--they're european!