De Tocqueville and American Democracy

I didn't get the chance to post anything about de Tocqueville last week. One thing that I wanted to bring up was that it seemed to me that de Tocqueville never really directly argues why freedom and democracy are necessary and what they really are like I thought the book was going to be.There are way too many people talking about their notion about freedom, equality, and democracy right now. De Tocqueville's freedom is is more of a “local" freedom. I tried to find a more appropriate word than local. local is the opposite of an abstract, big, universal, and hard to manage freedom. After reading Enich's blog about press
http://enichamcon.blogspot.com/2011/02/scale-of-press.html

I agree with him deeply that the bloom of press and media don't really add much to the overall quality. One thing I notice about newspaper and media is that in countries that doesn't have a "democracy" the newspapers talk about how happy and safe people are living under the directing of the government, and in countries like the Unites States I feel that the newspapers talk about both good and bad, and maybe more of the bad. I don't just want to read about how great the government is all the time in China. I want to know what is really happening right now.

I wrote several paragraphs as an response to de Tocqueville, but it was in Chinese! Enich said that I should post it but I think I will do that later after translating so it makes more sense :)