If the '04 campaign taught anything, it showed that Campaign Finance "Reform" is a travesty.There is one sovereign remedy for the negativity in American politics - eliminate government enabling of pseudoobjcetivity. And that simply means elimination of FCC support, even toleration, of broadcast journalism.
Whether of the left or of the right, opinion frankly expressed as opinion, such as is typical of talk radio, is legitimate. But there is nothing quite so tendentious as the claim by someone whose speech has political implications that their own speech is apolitical. That is precisely what gave sophistry a bad name.
- a claim of wisdom is a claim to be above the challenge of contrary facts and logic, and
- a claim of objectivity is in fact a claim of wisdom.
If you are willing to discuss issues with all comers, as the best talk show hosts are willing and even eager to do, you are philosophical. It is, IMHO, no accident that the most successful talk show hosts are conservatives.