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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]AikidoSoul
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People who think this is old news are missing a very big boat. Freedom of the Press was something We the People just took for granted, and now that the Press is pretty much owned by six corporations, including Rupert Murdoch, we don't hear much of what we need to know. Hence, DU.
It is a very big boat and is slowly but surely driftng away.
Recently I contacted a friend who used to be a hotdog investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, asking him whether he could help me get some of his smarter journalists to look into something I think is very important.
He simply told me that very few newpapers do any "real" investigative journalism anymore.
The erosion has been slow but now it seems we are in dire trouble.
And Faux Noise has created an entire generation of people who seem to hate the truth.
I don't know what we can do to change this. I do know that I agonize over it.
Am feeling very sad about it.
I wish I could remember what happend to me growing up that made me a truth lover. Was it all those books about Knights in Shining Armor? Was it ASEOPS fables? Was it the Catholic schools I went to all my life? The convent? Reading Dr. Suess?
And aren't the greatest stories and movies about pushing back against some great evil and finding Truth and Justice at the end?
What happpened? Don't people take that seriously anymore?
Help!