Freedom of the Press

In a democratic nation, the importance of a free press assumed that such a press would be fair, balanced and focused on all aspects of all parties and issues within that society or nation.

Since the founding of this nation, no one ever expected that the press, even in a supposedly free and open society could be taken over so completely and re-tooled to become the propaganda machine of only one facet of our society. History will show that this point was reached in America in the year 2008.

Television, print media, a huge section of radio, the entertainment industry such as movie and music segments have almost completely dedicated all their resources to promoting a specific political doctrine. Therefore, instead of being a free press, they have become a propaganda machine for that specific doctrine, and as such supports that doctrine completely regardless of what the cost to our society will be. This propaganda machine supportive of one and only one philosophy will cover up mistakes made by those who are in office who govern according to the precepts of that particular political doctrine.

The press will now cover for those who share that doctrine and who wish to run for office. The press works to hide characteristics and virtues of that person that if viewed from a full range of perspectives regarding that virtue or flaw would appear to blatantly disqualify those individuals from office. This propaganda machine will go to this extreme especially for those they see as having strong personalities and traits that could enhance the specific doctrine the press supports in the eyes of the public.

We are not talking about possible situations here, we are talking about what has happened in the elections of 2008. And not what occured only in the Presidential election but to Congressional elections as well. This is not an apparition, it is now reality.

Even though the above actions are done in order to support and shore up that particular political philosophy, society overall may be damaged and even destroyed, including the press itself, from forces within or from forces outside America.

Large segments of people in that nation, facing the destruction of their nation overall and finding themselves either suddenly or slowly being burdened beyond their means in trying to maintain a good quality of life will ask "What happened". "What happened" was that the press only presented a biased view and never published views and critiques from ALL perspectives that could have exposed such dangers lurking on the horizon, because those perspectives were not the perspective of the ideology they supported.

If circumstances become dire, people may then ask "Who can help us now" when they find themselves in danger of losing property they spent a lifetime working to acquire, "for the good of others" per such political ideology. They may find themselves in a situation where their loved ones or they themselves face dangers such as what we saw on September 11, 2001, where thousands died in an attack on America, because the media refused to cover specific faults of the political party representative of its ideology sufficiently enough for such dangers to mature and become real.