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Peggy Rossing
I'm sitting at 9:00 am on "President's Day" at my computer in New Hampshire
where we have "36 hours of democracy" left before we can put it all away in
boxes for another four years. This was supposed to be the year that the
Internet changed the political process. Although the candidates and the
media each unveiled web pages with lots of fanfare, and though the
newsgroups were spammed with polemic on why Steve Forbes was god's gift to
the republic, my read is that the Internet was not a player in the outcome
of this year's New Hampshire primary.
What I got from the Internet this time around was more convenient access to
the same wire stories that get dropped on my doorstep and broadcast from
the clock-radio every morning. I love news on demand, but it's not
democracy.
What I wanted from the Internet in this election was the stories from
people who had met the candidates and could give me first-hand real life
impressions. What I also wanted was someplace where I could ask Bob Dole
how his wife's role in the White house would compare and contrast with that
of Mrs. Clinton, or ask Pat Buchanan why, if he's so sympathetic to the
plight of working Americans, he's so opposed to their efforts to organize?
I put up a webpage about the New Hampshire primary.
It's my first real web page, and it was fun to produce. I hope that by
2000, we can use the Internet to get answers from one another, not just the
big money media sources.
peggyr@prossing.mv.com
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