Freedom Through The Press
Tears streamed down a broken face
That stared to the ground where his father lay
At lexington was he dying this day
For a battle lost, and a war begun.
In a young boys hand, A father lifted his head
To look at a son, so confused and afraid
Who understood not, for what his father bled
Why he would fight, What reason for death.
And so as they looked eye to eye
The boys innocent lips formed the question, why?
Then With inhuman strength, A father lifts dying fingers to sky
Pointing to a cloth, flying on high
His heart burns like fire, beats like a drum
As with his last breath he whispers
FREEDOM!
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burned brightly with the fires of freedom.
We have been handed a Democracy, handed freedom. And now we must either
throw this heritage away, by taking it for granted or we must fight our own
battle, a battle without bullets or threats, a battle for democracy. For
Freedom isn't Free. We must rule ourselves. It is an almost an obvious fact
that in order for us to rule, we need information. If the ruling body does not
have information than it can do nothing but act blindly, without direction.
This information comes from the media but, in order for the media accomplish
this informative purpose, so that we the people can rule ourselves, can have a
democracy, and can be free, we must do three things: Redefine democracy, Listen
to the press, and control our press. Our first problem is to redefine democracy.
Imagine, a young polish factory worker reads daily in papers that tell
him he is free, because the communistic government allows elections. The Press
tells him his government ...
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got the job of his
dreams when Time magazine assigned him to cover the Middle East. A month later
his feedback of information stopped and there was silence. Frantic officials
followed this trail of silence. It led to Islamic terrorists who bragged they
had kidnapped an "American spy." for a year, this young journalist's right
hand and foot were chained to a radiator. He was starved and violently beaten
many times without purpose. When his release was finally negotiated, he came
back to the United States and had enough strength to report on his year in
captivity.
At times the information being casually read by American citizens over
the breakfast table is information sealed by ...
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