Public Radio Manifesto, part II
Sunday, February 18, 2007 by Dave Winer.
I've been spending lots of time thinking about the talk in Boston later this week. 
1. Proof that we have a problem with discourse in our country -- we got into a crazy war without discussing it.
2. This little problem isn't something theoretical. It's costing us nearly a trillion dollars and thousands of American lives, and the problems it causes will last for generatins because kids are growing up in the world today with no respect for the US, and we don't deserve their respect bedause we don't think.
4. What better time to do it than as a national election is approaching.
Some of these ideas are outlined in a 1/2 hour podcast I did yesterday.