That's a shame. I fear that you'll be locking your door, closing your curtains and sleeping in a different bed every night now that you've expressed views potentially unfavorable to the current regime. I've lived overseas and experienced different interpretations of American history, and I know that one shouldn't simply absorb and reflec…
That's a shame. I fear that you'll be locking your door, closing your curtains and sleeping in a different bed every night now that you've expressed views potentially unfavorable to the current regime. I've lived overseas and experienced different interpretations of American history, and I know that one shouldn't simply absorb and reflect everything one hears on the news. I think the discussion we're having now and the forum on which we are interacting suggests that we have substantial freedom of expression and opinion in this country.
"The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same -- his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an 'Independent Press! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ~John Swinton (1829–1901)
I read a very diverse set of news sources. Perhaps they are all as you suggest. I draw my own conclusions as to the degree to which I agree with their viewpoint. I check the weather, then carry along my raincoat if the skies suggest I should. Unfettered and unbiased are two different things.
That's a shame. I fear that you'll be locking your door, closing your curtains and sleeping in a different bed every night now that you've expressed views potentially unfavorable to the current regime. I've lived overseas and experienced different interpretations of American history, and I know that one shouldn't simply absorb and reflect everything one hears on the news. I think the discussion we're having now and the forum on which we are interacting suggests that we have substantial freedom of expression and opinion in this country.
"The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same -- his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an 'Independent Press! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ~John Swinton (1829–1901)
1829-1901...
I read a very diverse set of news sources. Perhaps they are all as you suggest. I draw my own conclusions as to the degree to which I agree with their viewpoint. I check the weather, then carry along my raincoat if the skies suggest I should. Unfettered and unbiased are two different things.
So, whom do you distrust the least?