Posted by
Burorambo on Monday, October 01, 2007 1:32:34 PM
No question about it: our country depends for its survival on a free Press. In countries that lack a free press, the cause is a totalitarian government. In our country, it is a press willing to trade slant for access, neutrality for the perceived social welfare. What the members of the press seem to have forgotten is that the function of a free press is to provide the people with the facts they need to make sound decisions. A press that strives to influence the people rather than simply inform the people is not a free press but a shadow arm of government.