President Obama Slams Video Games, Blogs, iPads - G4tv.com

President Obama has said:

"With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said. "All of this is not only putting new pressures on you. It is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy," he added.

Obama also said an education can help people make sense of the different viewpoints and voices "clamoring for attention on blogs, on cable, on talk radio."

I found this quote from G4TV. It strikes me as disingenuous because it was the very same information pipes that lead to his election. I agree that these things can be a distraction but any tool can be if it is misused. We can't let others think for us. We must analyze and critique the information we consume. We should throw away the crap and cleave to what is good.


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President Obama Slams Video Games, Blogs, iPads - G4tv.com