Food, Politics and Carol Joynt: The Need to Know is Always on the Menu

What Carol Joynt of Nathan's Cafe at Georgetown, Washington, D.C. is doing should be seriously replicated across the nation. Maybe not in form but in principle. In order for Government to be accountable people must be in proximity to facts as organically as possible. A priori the need to know.

Holding a question and answer session with upper echelon Government functionaries and policy makers, at a restaurant, while patrons sup is practical. Considering the primary culprit of Governmental apathy is disillusioned constituents who impotently opt out of paying attention, thereby leaving governance and it's apparatus to the preaching to the choir practice of base politics.

Carol Joynt, once a Walter Cronkite intern has fused Journalism with food. Patrons at her Restaurant, Nathan's Cafe at Georgetown are treated to in house interviews, questions, and answer sessions with agitators and apologists alike. Victims of perfidy by the Bush Administration, like Valarie Plame and Dan Rather. Have all been on the Politics of the day menu.

By Apropos