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The Last Real Newspaper
It's up to the public
and the media to make things happen. A scary part about it is the last
time we had an honest media was back in the 1930-40's'. One of the
first black newspapers was owned by a guy in the north who became the
country’s first black millionaire.
As you can imagine, the black newspapers
had their problems. Soon after he started
his newspaper he had to have the papers smuggled into the southern
states by hiding the bundles in the sleeper cars on trains. During
World War II, the president was going to shut them down because the
black mans' papers were covering how the black troops were being
treated in the war. He went to the white house and worked out a plea
bargain with the attorney general and the agreement was that he would
water down the coverage and kept in more on the American Dream theme.
When the black news papers started to get
advertisers, the news began to get watered down even more. Between the
government and the advertisers, eventually the papers became censured.
The thing we can learn from this is that: In the US of A, freedom of
speech doesn't mean too much if you’re stuck standing on a milk crate
yelling out your opinion. Believe me; they will put people in the crowd
to say you're crazy. And if you are successful in creating a crowd,
don't be surprises if they haul
you off to a funnyfarm for creating a commotion.
From what I've learned, the media is controlled
by the advertising industry, so it's up to the public to make things
happen.
The fact is; the armed
forces have trouble recruiting people now days only suggests people
don't trust the government like they have in the past. Many people
think or at least say they can't do anything about the corruption in
the US.
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