COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PETER PRESTON IN THE
GUARDIAN
Press freedom?
Pretty much self-congratulatory and self-serving stuff.
Just where do you see that? While the press in Britain and
America is free of obvious government restraint, the situation really is almost
a technicality.
The interests, largely corporate, which own or manage every
newspaper, including this one, are completely loyal to government and its major
interests. You will not find an exception.
And why is that? Because you could not run a newspaper
without government contacts, government leaks and favors and other cooperation
plus advertising from corporate interests who would never patronize newspapers
which worked against government policy. Plus, there are the always-present
special interests at work on the owners and/or managers.
A very wise man once said that only way to have freedom of
the press was to own one, and he was completely right.
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An added thought.
Do you reckon it was press freedom that was going after
Jeremy Corbyn's jugular for months? And still works actively towards his demise
today, though somewhat less viciously than earlier?
Was it press freedom that didn't tell the public of Tony
Blair's many lies and distortions?
