Klobby L on Spoutible

Encouraging post today from #HeatherCoxRichardson ! #Accountability

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It hit me as I read through all this news that a key theme seems to be a new shift toward transparency and accountability. It jumps out at me that people are talking to lawyers and to the press about illegalities, irregularities, and, in the Sandy Hook case, horrors that in the past they have kept quiet.
Whether it comes from disgust at the excesses of those who are attacking our democracy or from fear of the law, that transparency reminds me of the pivotal importance of McClure’s Magazine in the early twentieth century. Reformers had expressed philosophical concerns about the concentration of wealth and power at the top of American society for decades, but those concerns could be ignored until the investigative journalists working for McClure’s began to explore the specifics of political corruption and its cost to ordinary Americans. Dismissed as “muckrakers” by politicians, those journalists nonetheless helped to shift the weight of social value from keeping secrets to spilling them....

10:51 AM - Apr 21, 2023

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In response to Klobby L.

I hope we're really seeing a paradigm shift in what people are willing to accept from the elites. Hold their feet to the fire!

10:56 AM - Apr 21, 2023

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In response to Paulie Amory.

Oh I hope so!!!!

11:03 AM - Apr 21, 2023

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