Role of the Press: 2 views of the news media
 
View #1: We don't "make" news - we only "report" it, so if our news item is likely to create waves, you can forget it: We will be silenced, and if you are getting assaulted by governmental tyranny, you're on your own, bub.
 
View #2: "Free press doctrine lionized the press as the prime defender of public liberty in its role as a bulwark against governmental tyranny."
 
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/martinrowt.htm
 
ISSN 1062-7421
Vol. 12 No. 2 (February 2002) pp. 79-83.
 
THE FOUNDING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC PRESS LIBERTY, 1640-1800 by Robert W. T. Martin. New York: New York University Press, 2001. 238 pp. Cloth $40.00. ISBN: 0-8147-5655-7
 
Question: Seeing as these are two diametrically opposing views, which view do you support?
 
A) View #1 - TRANSLATION: We don't believe in free press.
 
B) View #2 - TRANSLATION: We do believe in free exercise of speech -come what may -to keep citizens out of harms way.
 
C) "We report on 'what we want to and are not pressured by citizens wanting stories done." TRANSLATION: This uses "weasel words" to basically say that they support squelching of free press by big government interests, and the citizens are fair game -like in Communist and oppressive regimes -where the press is not free to defend citizens against oppressive government.
 
 
Gordon Wayne Watts http://GordonWatts.com
BS, The Florida State University, Biological & Chemical Sciences,
double major with honors
AS, United Electronics Institute, Valedictorian


ALWAYS FAITHFUL - To God
Gordon Wayne Watts
821 Alicia Road
Lakeland,
FLA, USA - Planet EARTH! ~ 33801-2113
* http://GordonWatts.com * http://HomeTown.AOL.com/Gww1210 * http://GeoCities.com/Gordon_Watts32313 * http://Gordon_Watts.Tripod.com/consumer.html *

Home:
(863) 688-9880 Work: (863) 686-3411 Voice/FAX: (863) 687-6141
E-Mail:
Gww1210@aol.com
; Gww12102002@Yahoo.com
Truth is the strongest, most stable force in the Universe.
Truth does not change because you disbelieve it!

TRUTH doesn't bend to the will of tyrants.

Gordon Wayne Watts

Get Truth.


"First, they [Nazis] came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me." (Martin Niemoller, given credit for a quotation in The Harper Religious and Inspirational Quotation Companion, ed. Margaret Pepper (New York: Harper &Row, 1989), 429 -as cited on page 44, note 17, of Religious Cleansing in the American Republic, by Keith A. Fornier, Copyright 1993, by Liberty, Life, and Family Publications.

(Actually, they may not have come for the Jews first, as it's far more likely they came for the prisoners, mentally handicapped, and other so-called "inferiors" first -as historians tell us -so they could get "practiced up;" But, they did come for them -due to the silence of their neighbors -and due, in part, to their own silence. So the general idea is correct: "Speak up now, or forever hold your peace." --Gordon)
*
*