THE ISSUE: The role of videos posted on YouTube in the American political debate.

YouTube threatens the monopoly that the media and politicians currently enjoy. No wonder they are eager to limit the free-speech of these particular venues (“YouTube Nation,” Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, March 27).

However, Rich Lowry’s assertion that the public can be trusted to separate the wheat from the chaff is, at best, naive.

As we shuffle our children through a broken education system, we are producing a large number of poorly educated voters.

Trusting them is like trusting a new but poorly trained medical-school graduate to perform heart surgery. Would Lowry agree to undergo the procedure under these conditions? I think not.

Rocky Tortorella
Cortlandt Manor

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With the decline of a free press over the last few decades, lost to predominantly left-wing journalistic propaganda, YouTube is a breath of fresh air.

YouTube gives us another medium that places the truth first and propaganda somewhere down the list.

The facts take precedence over the politics and political favors that run our print- and network-media outlets, the exception being Fox News.

On its front page, The New York Times proudly states, “All the news that’s fit to print.” But fit for whom?

Most know that this means the news that’s fit for the Times’ subjective, political partisanship, which takes precedence over objective, fact-based journalism.

Greg Rando
Brooklyn