Re:Assange Hearing Day 7
by eternalban on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:42AM
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Should employees of a corporation have more rights than a citizen? A very good question.
Are these "journalist" actually maintaining a sacred trust of "digging out the truth and publishing it"? Cursory review of American Journalism in the past few decades indicates otherwise to this consumer of their product.
If American Journalism actually worked, if American journals were actually committed to "digging out the truth and publishing it", there would no "conspiracy theories" whatsoever, starting with theories around the assissination of a sitting American president.
This phoneomena -- the public maintaing an ad-hoc narrative of events after rejecting offical narratives -- are known side-effects of living under "managed public discourse" political regimes. Free societies do not indoctrinate their populace.
Press is the tool of the powerful in every corner of this planet. And no, it is not "nutty" to think "all should be equal before the law".
Are these "journalist" actually maintaining a sacred trust of "digging out the truth and publishing it"? Cursory review of American Journalism in the past few decades indicates otherwise to this consumer of their product.
If American Journalism actually worked, if American journals were actually committed to "digging out the truth and publishing it", there would no "conspiracy theories" whatsoever, starting with theories around the assissination of a sitting American president.
This phoneomena -- the public maintaing an ad-hoc narrative of events after rejecting offical narratives -- are known side-effects of living under "managed public discourse" political regimes. Free societies do not indoctrinate their populace.
Press is the tool of the powerful in every corner of this planet. And no, it is not "nutty" to think "all should be equal before the law".