> > I'm very much with you here. Unfortunately, it looks like > people are paying > less and less attention to what the power does for > manipulating the public > opinion and getting wider consensus. That's a strong trend to > totalitarism > under a thin democratic mask, and I hate it. That's happening > here in Italy, > unsure if this applies elsewhere too. >
Here in the UK we are always provided with full, impartial evidence by whichever government is in power. They want to make the best decisions for the whole country, without undue influence from vested interests, so there is never any spin, exaggeration, or stretching or bending of the truth to suit political expendiency. The newspapers are equally unbiased in the way they present the information. Naturally they take a sceptical view of it - that's their job after all - but usually the investigative reporters find that once again the government has been entirely straightforward, so there is little to report. The newspapers themselves, most of them owned by enlightened philanthropists with white beards and a merry chuckle, have no agenda other than the common good. The advertising industry sometimes comes in for mild criticism because so many of its claims err on the side of caution, and people may not always realise how much their lives and the cleanliness of their floors could be improved by buying the new, scientifically proven, formulation of Whizzo! Finally, the various religions are engaged in a continuous and rather fascinating dialogue with our leading scientists to uncover the nature of the universe and our place in it, without throwing overboard the fascinating traditions, which contain much truth, that we inherited from the Bronze Age herders of the Middle East who began this whole enquiry. Bob Stepford, UK -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
