by: Robert M. Cerello

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:36:44 +0000

Mr. Babson is, I suggest, correct in his rebuttal to the main thrust of this dry and frightening recital of acts against the press’s representatives all over the world.
If the U.S. leaders expect to continue even their fantasy claims that we are “better” in some mysterious ways than are other nations’ citizens–to the point that their laws, ways of operaion and constitutions are called irrelevant to ours by our so-called leaders, then one thing obviously needs to be proven, not nerely asserted or hinted. And that is ‘how and why we are supposed to be different let alone better’.
Is the difference, as it appears de facto in the above analysis that the U.S’s governmental leaders don’t use force but rather coercion, fraud and other crimes to silence their more scientific, honest and American opponents–whereas more brutal but no-less-repressive regimes use or ignore direct force aimed at reporters?
That is a difference in the degree of totalitarianism, I argue; it is also a whitewasdh of the power, tremendous influence and potential for leadership that characterizes the U.S.’s wholly failed non-fictional purveyors.
If we are to be “better” than, or even “as good as” other nations’ governmental servants are, and if we are to have more rights as citizens of a Constitutional nation, then perhaps the question ought to be why we have a media “establishment” of what I term “pro-imperial-presidential cheerleaders for statist collectivism” and we no longer have idea-level defenders of 1. individual rights, 2. justice in the former marketplaces of goods, work and governmental election/selection and, 3. truth about as opposed to fantsized and poisoned reports of how bad conditions have been made to be.
The report cited above is undeniably a recitation of horrors. But notice one thing: the underlying false assumption that individuals in the US under “public interest lawmaking’s” gangsterism still have a Constitution, inferred access to fulyl-disclosed necessarey and true information, an infrastructre of categorizing concepts, honest truth-tellers, standards-based evaluation, and ofopportunities to make, monitor and live a life worth having?
One can argue that in more honestly dictatorial nations, the need for reform is tacitly admitted whereas here it is not; yes, the physical danger to their reformers, truth-tellers, investigators is increased. But so is the stake held by each of their citizens in the hope that something better may eventually be won by virtue of courage, truth seeking and a call for much-needed change.
Whistleblowers may be murdered elsewhere, but they at least do not live in vain as our few honest reporters do–or live in hopeless obscurity, denied notice, jobs, prizes, influence over news–gathering, positions, honors, prizes,
financial security, and an earned outlet for their horror stories.
We do not have to be worse than others are, I assert, to have a much worse effect on world conditins affecting individual minds’ lack of liberty and lack of potential rewards for telling the truth in either non-fictional or fictional firm.
When we hold an elective farce, fail to punish administrations of Constitution-wrecking criminals and fail to clean up our own house, we open the way for unrealistic thinkers, attackers of necessary government regulation and perverted pseudo-religious-tyrannical purveyorseven worse levels of poisoned anti-concepts.
The road to hell I assert is a government-built highway, one whose signpost reads, “And the pretense that Truth requires no scientific categories, definitions nor regulations shall set you in eternal bondage”.
Truth can certainly make men free. ABut what it can free them from is all would-be dictators: postmodernists reality destroyers, those who would substitute their alternate universe of lies for the concepts and facts of what is Reality–what is something more than sick fantasies politically able to be sold to victims by means of lies, distortions, evasions, withholdings of evidence and other dirty tricks.

by: Dwight Bobson

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:53:49 +0000

I failed to find information related to the loss of press freedom in the USA by virtue of the press itself. The legacy American press to which so many older Americans continue to turn has been mostly negligent and embarrassingly timid in its approach to coverage of the US government and the actions of its elected officials. Unless the journalists that may remain in the media and consider themselves to be professionals take an aggressive and investigative attitude toward the reporting and analysis of public policies and the officials who obfuscate their actions, then there is no free press in the USA by virtue of self-censorship. I understand corporate greed and the motivation to be accepted by the current occupants of positions of power but the true journalists will not allow that to stand in the way.
You need to use your reports to recognize these deficiencies in the press regardless of what officials in government or other influentials may be doing.

Comments on: Press Freedom World Review, November 2007 - June 2008

by: Robert M. Cerello

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