It's not that they wouldn't, it's that they don't do as good of a job of finding out the truth as America's press does, probably because they are more civilized / less vicious.
Any press in an average democracy (except Russia) will jump on an opportunity to get a good story, but only in america do we have so many leaks that next to nothing can be kept secret. I felt sorry for bush when his first draft of the rules for military tribunals were leaked, because now the first draft becomes the public's final draft, and anything he does to change it can look quite bad. Understand, I'm not a proponent of secrecy, but I consider it a fact that there are so many leaks that not much can be kept a secret. But in a weird way I also think this works in our favor in the long run. But in the short run I bet it's frustrating for government employees (bush included). -----Original Message----- From: chat-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:chat-ad...@freenetproject.org] On Behalf Of Glenn McGrath Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 7:04 PM To: chat at freenetproject.org Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] The Coming Storm On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:47:55 -0800 "Josh" <josh at mercuryfs.net> wrote: > How can a democratic government be immoral? Perhaps you only focus on the> things our government does wrong, which I admit is a lot, but perhaps you> should consider that all governments do things wrong, and only in America do> we have the press exposing it left and right. You seem to be implying that the press in countries outside the US wouldnt report on a government scandal, i dont know how you could rationally form that opinion. Glenn _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
