Governmental Transparency?

CosmicDreams asks: "With our concern about transparency in business transactions these days, should we focus on what is arguably the largest business of all, government? Today, it is possible to build a system in which the official interactions (social, fiscal, and oral) of our elected officials can be presented to world in an uncensored, unspinned, and quick-to-market medium. Unlike talk radio, newspapers, and late night stand-up routines, only the internet can possibly supply the public which a near instantaneous collection of news in sheer bulk form. What would the effects of such a system be on America and the world? I would be interested in hearing opinions on this matter."

Comments

Incompatible with global hegemony

[aminorex]

In a democracy, allowing the electorate access
to raw information about the operations of government
is very counter-productive, because they will tend
to vote in an uncontrolled manner.

For example, could the Gulf War have been conducted
if it's pretextual deceits were not prominently
featured by the 5 major global media corporations?
Could it have been continued to a successful
conclusion if the massive extermination of the
Iraqis in the neutral zone and southern Iraq had
been covered in widely available press? Squeamish
elements would have militated vociferously against
the mass-live-burial in the neutral zone, and
the mass-incineration of the retreating, defeated
soldiers and thousands of civillians on the "road
of death".

It's crucially important that the organs of the
media which direct the attention of the masses
should be responsible to the authorities, or
the ability of the U.S. to subjugate the swarthy
people with oil is threatened, and if that is
threatened, the entire stock market is threatened.