"Where Have You Gone, Joe The Citizen?"

The NY Times offers this interesting report. A snippet: "Mr. Kratovil's experience was part of a phenomenon that swept the country last week, with increasingly ugly scenes of partisan screaming matches, scuffles, threats and even arrests. The traditional town hall meeting, a staple of Congressional constituent relations, had been hijacked, overrun by sophisticated social-networking campaigns -- those on the right protesting so loudly as to shut down public discourse and those on the left springing into action to shut down the shutdowns."

Posted by Rick Hasen at August 9, 2009 09:36 PM