By: David A.W. Hittle
November 24, 2009
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is one of the most important amendments added with the Bill of Rights. The text of that amendment is also quite simple: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Fox News’s motto is that they’re “Fair and Balanced,” I believe that, that is truer now than it has ever been. When President Bush was in office, everyday was an Iraq war casualty update, and today is the same thing. The same people are still with Fox News, Geraldo (Democrat/Socialist), Sheppard Smith (Democrat), etc. There are only difference between Fox News and the other network news outlets. 1. Fox News actually allows Conservatives to work, and be Conservative. 2. When a person is found out to be a Conservative they’re a. not immediately fired, or b. put into a though-changing camp.
The reason for the freedom of the press is and was for one reason only… The founding fathers wanted the press and citizens of this great nation to know what its government was doing the entire time. They also wanted the citizenry to know current events and again to know exactly what was going on in their country at any given time.
Of course in the beginning there were only newspapers, and there was no e-mail, telephone, or other devices. The newspapers took awhile to update so began the pamphlet. It was easy to print, easy to distribute and was able to update the citizens of every situation.
The Press has direct freedom from the Constitution because the founders knew it was vitally important to keep the government in check.
Today however most of the press doesn’t check the government, instead they back up the Democrat party politicians. When Ron Paul was interviewed about his bill which would Audit the Federal Reserve, some News Agencies criticized him about this even though in the latest polls the American people want the Fed Audited.
So what does this indicate? Either one the Press is behind the times with the American people, or two the Press is behind the Politicians; if it is two instead of one, we’ll continue to see any candidate who is not a Democrat treated like garbage, and Democrats will be backed up 100% as they more or less are today.
When we have a media event with President Obama and he tells them that most of the voted for him; and he gets an applause we know there is something wrong. Because truth is, most of the probably did vote for him, and most of them endorsed him as well. The point is: The Press is supposed to inform the American people not endorse candidates for political office or follow their talking points to the letter.
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