A free press is the cornerstone of any democracy; it enables
the population to be properly informed about the goings on in the world. It
should be able to get both sides of the story and be able to do so freely
without the intimidation of Governments or other forms of organised crime.
Investigative journalism is fast becoming extinct and this is not only bad for
the industry but also for society.
As I have said before, high quality investigative journalism
allows for a well informed public, a rational public. In most parts the type of
journalism we get now is mostly just talking heads spouting their own opinions,
objectivity has been replaced by a media that perpetuates sensationalism, which
then inevitably leads to a rather anxious and somewhat misinformed and
sometimes even a violent society.
This is why you have to question the Government.. why would
they want the public to be constantly afraid and angry?? The simple reason why
they would want the public to be in a constant state of fear is quite
simple, it thus becomes that much easier
for them to take away rights and freedoms under the pretense of guaranteed
safety. First of all, you can’t guarantee absolute safety, so that’s a lie and
secondly how is giving up your freedom and rights helping to protect your
freedoms?
The simple explanation is that if you are foolish enough to
give up these rights you also give up your right to voice your dissent when the
Government does anything harmful towards you like spying and snooping!!! And how can they control this…. By taking away
the means of getting information.
The “ news” media is guilty of being lopsided or they always seen to have their own
agenda, and that is because in most part they are owned by multi- million pound
corporations or the Government has a large stake in it and if they decide to
report anything that displeases the overloads, they will lose their funding or
be cancelled. When the Government get their hands on what information we have
access to it quickly turns into a propaganda tool.
The recent horrific attack on Palestine has opened the eyes
of some people, because in the first days of that conflict the BBC had a rather
different slant on it, more pro- Israel, but because of the wonders of the
internet and the people actual wanting to know what was really happening,
people soon realized that what the BBC was trying to make us believe was not
what was really happening. After getting a ton of backlash about their “reporting”,
they have decided to show what’s actually going on. ( for a while at least)
And this was achieved thanks to our access to the internet,
but that may soon be gone as we know it because the powers that be do not like
the fact that they can’t control the flow of information, so they are putting
as many restrictions on the internet that they can.
Unfortunately the people are not always so proactive and
thus let the nonsense of the mainstream media pollute their minds and that is
why investigative journalist are so important to a democratic society. A good investigative journalist will not let themselves
be bullied by the Government into only reporting what they approve off, a good
journalist will ask probing questions and probe even further to get to the
truth.
The public also has to question why the big old Government
would resort to bullying to get what they want, and is what they want really in
the public’s best interest.
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