Church rummage sale/ freedom of the press
I have been busy today helping pick up stuff for our church rummage sale, had hoped to get some youth work done today, oh well maybe tomorrow.
A few nights ago on C-span(yes I watch C-span)there was a congressional hearing that dealt with the issue of freedom of the press. It was called by Rep. Conyers of MI who I really like. He was the one who spent time to invegistate the voting issues from the last election that for many was unnoticed or labeled as sour grapes. Back to the hearing they invited press from multiple sources and biases ( yes there are biases in the media, although I am beginning to doubt the liberal media myth) but only the more progressive media ( Air America, fair media, etc...) showed up. What was most interesting was the view point of the BBC chief correspondent. He talked about the difference in the way the press in England treat politicians and the press here do. He said here if a politician does not answer a question the reporter moves on and rarely does or gets followup questions, in England the opposite is true, the reporter may ask the same question repeatly until they get an answer. The other thing that stuck out of this discussion was that a group called freedom house who was started by Eleanor Roosevelt to monitor freedom around the world published a recent study. The first thing they look at in determining if a country is free is their press, and in a recent study of countries and the press the US ranked 29th. The beacon of freedom, the country that is trying to impose freedom on others was 29th in terms of the freedom of our press, doesn't that startle you?
Some examples of the changing press in this country ( some due the Bush admistration, some due to the fact our media is corporation controlled) : the 10 Downing street memo that states Bush was going to war and the facts would be manipulated to support going to war, has not been discussed in main stream media. You need to follow blogs to know about it. The radio show host who was paid by the Bush admistration to push their adgenda, the fake reporter who asked softball questions of the President, the talking points the RNC and the heritage foundation feed Fox news and the right wing talk show hosts that is portrayed as news. I could go on,but this is too long of a post already.
see
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/
A few nights ago on C-span(yes I watch C-span)there was a congressional hearing that dealt with the issue of freedom of the press. It was called by Rep. Conyers of MI who I really like. He was the one who spent time to invegistate the voting issues from the last election that for many was unnoticed or labeled as sour grapes. Back to the hearing they invited press from multiple sources and biases ( yes there are biases in the media, although I am beginning to doubt the liberal media myth) but only the more progressive media ( Air America, fair media, etc...) showed up. What was most interesting was the view point of the BBC chief correspondent. He talked about the difference in the way the press in England treat politicians and the press here do. He said here if a politician does not answer a question the reporter moves on and rarely does or gets followup questions, in England the opposite is true, the reporter may ask the same question repeatly until they get an answer. The other thing that stuck out of this discussion was that a group called freedom house who was started by Eleanor Roosevelt to monitor freedom around the world published a recent study. The first thing they look at in determining if a country is free is their press, and in a recent study of countries and the press the US ranked 29th. The beacon of freedom, the country that is trying to impose freedom on others was 29th in terms of the freedom of our press, doesn't that startle you?
Some examples of the changing press in this country ( some due the Bush admistration, some due to the fact our media is corporation controlled) : the 10 Downing street memo that states Bush was going to war and the facts would be manipulated to support going to war, has not been discussed in main stream media. You need to follow blogs to know about it. The radio show host who was paid by the Bush admistration to push their adgenda, the fake reporter who asked softball questions of the President, the talking points the RNC and the heritage foundation feed Fox news and the right wing talk show hosts that is portrayed as news. I could go on,but this is too long of a post already.
see
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/
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