Opinion: There can be no American
democracy without a free press
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
by
Gene Policinski
Original Article
Posted By: MDConservative,
3/16/2021 11:25:06 AM
There’s a reason we need a free press, despite its faults and foibles: Democracy won’t work without it.
The grand experiment in self-governance that is the United States is rooted in trust and confidence we all will work toward the greater good. But the nation’s founders had experience with a king and his expected benevolence — and what could happen when things didn’t work out.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
davew 3/16/2021 11:36:21 AM (No. 725414)
The problem for the press is that there is more money to be made from lies than from truth. The powerful forces that run the country from DC, Wall Street, and Beijing have coopted the flow of information for "the good of society" and anyone that wants to expose them is crushed economically. The internet has changed retail business and social media has changed the flow of news and information in ways that can be manipulated and used to control the population.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 3/16/2021 11:41:56 AM (No. 725423)
There is no 'free press' today to about a 95% certainty.
The Enemedia is totally shot through with dedicated leftists and Communists who are committed to destroying the USA as founded and pushing hard for a communist (they call it socialist, as another lie) dictatorship like Venezuela and China. The corporations which own all the news (less about 5%) intend to do this same destruction, with the idea that One World Government and centralized control by some nebulous 'elite globalists' group (not functionally any different than kings of the old times) will give then endless power and riches.
The people at the top do NOT believe in egalitarian, free institutions like the Constitution lays out, and are doing everything they can to destroy the historic America, and replace it with a dictatorship of the rich and powerful.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Petronius 3/16/2021 11:49:53 AM (No. 725445)
Commies have always had the goal of taking over the American press. They have succeeded.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
marbles 3/16/2021 11:54:21 AM (No. 725455)
The 1st Amendment of The Bill of Rights guarantees a free press. The dems don't want the truth reported . It wouldn't be good for business. We all now that.the MSM is the P.R. arm of the dem party, the dems think we haven't caught on.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
reefdiver 3/16/2021 12:08:34 PM (No. 725481)
when hear the intro to the Alphabet news come on, I hear "Good evening comrades, welcome to AB Pravda approved news today"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
columba 3/16/2021 12:13:04 PM (No. 725488)
Reliable studies show that almost all "press" people do not attend a church and do not know anyone who does.
Where then do they get any information outside of woke-dom?
They don't.
And they present their strange opinions to us as if they are factual.
I do not listen, I do not watch.
The newspaper wen in 1987 and the TV went in 1984.
You should do the same.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 3/16/2021 1:01:51 PM (No. 725531)
Once again the Kneepad media lies. The article states that the only profession mentioned in the Constitution was 'free press'. Free press isn't a profession. And the 6th amendment clearly states the right to 'counsel' i.e. attorney. So now the 'free press' is a profession and an attorney isn't a profession. Surprised by the end of the article they didn't declare 'journalist' Saints!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Catfur27 3/16/2021 1:35:21 PM (No. 725566)
...the issue isn't that "we don't have a free press"...
...the issue is we have a dishonest, partisan, media...that is aligned with ONE political party.
...I believe the MAIN reason that so many otherwise decent, intelligent, Germans supported the Nazis in the 1930's is because they received ALL their "news" from a dishonest, partisan ,media that was in bed with the Nazis.
...they were "told" that Jews were evil /racist/greedy people...( and deserved to be punished t)...and.... the whole World was out to "get Germany" for no good reason.....??........and, like now, so many believed that the media does not lie...!!??
...what OUR media is now doing to cancel "American Culture " ( because it is evil/racist/greedy ) runs a similar path...brainwash people with the "Big Lie"...and they will eventually believe it
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 3/16/2021 2:34:07 PM (No. 725628)
Yes. Yes there can be. Who watches or cares about Old Media?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 3/16/2021 2:58:32 PM (No. 725660)
Good thing it's not a democracy. There are no journalists. There are only propagandists.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 3/16/2021 3:58:07 PM (No. 725713)
There never was any "American democracy".....words actually have DEFINITIONS.
Our government has always been a representative REPUBLIC, never a democracy, and ignorant writers saying it another ten thousand times won't make it true.
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