Mobilization

 

“Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.”

 

—Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, “Teddy Roosevelt’s ‘Bully Pulpit’ Isn’t the Platform It Once Was,” NPR, Nov. 4, 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Better get mobilized in a hurry, else those ancient ideals be dead and buried.

 

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