America and Americans are slaves to a corporate controlled media. Zinn needs to acknowledge that this is less about ideology than it is about money. The dysfunction is part of the system of commerce, less so in the system of education. These questions are addressed at the secondary levels and in higher education, as they should be, but there's a dissonance between what information is offered in schools and the information provided by the corporate media. That's why corporations are bankrolling groups to attack professors inside universities, because that's the only place you'll find historical truths in the US today.

As for dkos, it's a wing of the Democratic party. So, you're going over to a blog filled with Dem Party stalwarts and asking them to consider something that's quite outside their means: an understanding of the country that supersedes the party. I don't want to come down too hard on the blog but much of what you get over there is mindless party drivel. Otherwise, it's a sometimes excellent source of discussion of civil rights and economic issues of the sort Jerome often presents.