As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form. ...
“The mass abuse of working class girls is a rotting stain on our country’s history—this inquiry is doing our very best to drag the scandal into the spotlight,” Lowe said....