The American Press industry is perhaps the most corrupt and unethical business in the country. It is one of the three fundamental institutions our founding fathers established to guard "LIFE, LIBERTY and PURSUITS" of a free people. For that matter our founders gave the press enormous power, because they knew that a democracy will not survive without a free and honest press.
From the beginning of history the prevailing rule of human interaction was MIGHT IS RIGHT and the large majority of people were subjugated and enslaved by those few who had the power to do so. Even today the majority of people in the world do not enjoy the freedoms that we have in America and a few western European countries.
If you are a student of history, you will admit that the publication of The Declaration of Independence and the American revolution that followed were a real break-through in democracy because, for the first time, our founders established a written constitution that prescribed how a free society can survive and prosper with three basic human institutions. These were the church, the state and a free press - and all the three will serve the members of a free society. These independent institutions were intended to balance the power structure, especially to assure that "GOVERNMENT" does not turn into a dictatorship.
With individual freedoms and our form of government and free institutions America became the greatest country in the world.
As time went on one basic human institution - THE PRESS - decided that with the enormous power they have, they can corrupt the government and acquire political power by altering the news, hiding the truth or telling only part of the truth.
And this where The Koch Brothers in business and the "CHOKE brothers" in government comes in. For quite some time the democratic party led by Senators Reid and Schumer have been demonizing "the Koch brothers."
MORE ON THIS TOPIC IN THE NEXT POST.
The Blogtrotter
May 5, 2014
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