[a fool in paradise]

I posted a link to the 1946 educational film on Democracy and tolerance for different viewpoints and how private press can also censor information and be despotic.

[adorno]

I posted a link to the 1946 educational film on Democracy and tolerance for different viewpoints and how private press can also censor information and be despotic.

The problem with how we (the country) views the private press, is that, they are viewed as not being government, therefore, immune from the rules of freedom of the press and of free speech and freedom of religion. But, in fact, the press has become a de-facto branch of the government, where it's now virtually a mouthpiece of the government and actually sets policies which governments follow. Separation of church and state was/is a good idea. We need to insure that separation of the press from government is also a rule or law. Freedom of the press is in the bill of rights, but, in actual practice, it isn't.