Sixty percent of Americans don’t trust mass media.
Is this attitude fair? Or has the media gotten a bum rap?
In general, do newspapers, TV and radio report news fully, accurately and fairly?
Look at the Time magazine covers distributed to different parts of the world for the same month. One of them is not like the others.
The Oct. 24 edition of Time magazine suggests that U.S. foreign policy is of more importance to foreigners than to Americans. Or perhaps the front page headline wasn’t telling the tale of American “exceptionalism” our commander-in-chief wanted customers in check-out lines across the nation seeing?
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan may be the key democratically elected Muslim leader who stands at the crossroads between East and West, but hey! What about these inventions?!
If you lived abroad Dec. 5, 2011, the cover of your current issue of Time magazine featured a dramatic picture of an Arab rebel wearing a gas mask under the headline “Revolution Redux”. Americans got, “Why anxiety is good for you.”
How can this be? Our government doesn’t control our press…does it? We have the freest press in the world right?
Well, not exactly.
The Obama administration, instead of being the transparent government Obama promised, has taken unprecedented control of the media–even spying on and persecuting journalists.
US plummets on World Press Freedom Ranking
The indicators for press freedom in the U.S. have been dramatic with a downward movement from 27th to 47 in global ranking.
1 Finland -10,00
– Norway -10,00
3 Estonia -9,00
– Netherlands -9,00
5 Austria -8,00
6 Iceland -7,00
– Luxembourg -7,00
8 Switzerland -6,20
9 Cape Verde -6,00
10 Canada -5,67
– Denmark -5,67
12 Sweden -5,50
13 New Zealand -5,33
14 Czech Republic -5,00
15 Ireland -4,00
16 Cyprus -3,00
– Jamaica -3,00
– Germany -3,00
19 Costa Rica -2,25
20 Belgium -2,00
– Namibia -2,00
22 Japan -1,00
– Surinam -1,00
24 Poland -0,67
25 Mali 0,00
– OECS 0,00
– Slovakia 0,00
28 United Kingdom 2,00
29 Niger 2,50
30 Australia 4,00
– Lithuania 4,00
32 Uruguay 4,25
33 Portugal 5,33
34 Tanzania 6,00
35 Papua New Guinea 9,00
36 Slovenia 9,14
37 El Salvador 9,30
38 France 9,50
39 Spain 9,75
40 Hungary 10,00
41 Ghana 11,00
42 South Africa 12,00
– Botswana 12,00
44 South Korea 12,67
45 Comoros 13,00
– Taiwan 13,00
47 United States of America 14,00
Our 1st amendment rights have eroded to the point where our American press, in comparison to media in other countries, has become less free than at any other point in American history.
The following articles discuss how Obama is abusing our 1st amendment rights, controls what we can know and is persecuting journalists who don’t tow the line:
