--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to me that perhaps freedom as we know it in > the United States > today doesn't offer any assurance that the press > will report reality. > Less and less all the time, in my opinion, due to > the consolidation of > media power and the accompanying focus on revenue. > Nick Arnett
Perhaps, but this is a remarkable conflation of two completely different things. One is getting a number (that no one really knows) wrong. The second is claiming that _The Protocols of the Elders of Zion_ is an accurate description of the Jewish plan to dominate the world. It seems to me that it's possible to make a judgment between these two and say that one is not the same as the other. The argument - the American press is not perfect - is true. It doesn't mean that it's not vastly superior to most others (particularly the Arab press). It seems to me that this is, oddly, a version of an argument heard quite often during the Cold War. The US was not perfect. The Soviet Union was not perfect. Therefore they were the same. Except, of course, as we all know, they weren't. Similarly with the above. Freedom may not offer any assurance that the press will report reality. Freedom does, however, offer us the assurance that it will get closer than anything else. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
