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In one of the largest drops in the modern era, the United States has plunged thirteen places in the World Press Freedom Index, placing it behind former Soviet states and other countries not typically known for press freedoms.
The massive drop is attributable mostly to the Obama Administration’s effort to crack down on whistleblowers. Obama’s Justice Department has filed suit against more whistleblowers than any other presidential administration in history.
Forty-sixth places it behind the former Soviet republics of Lithuania and Latvia and the satellite states of Romania, Poland and Czechoslovakia (both the Czech Republic and Slovakia). It also puts it behind Ghana, South Africa and El Salvador.
Hitler met nearly every day with Goebbels to discuss the news, and Goebbels would obtain Hitler's thoughts on the subject. Goebbels then met with senior Ministry officials to pass down the official Party line on world events. Broadcasters and journalists required prior approval before their works were disseminated.
Nazi Germany Propaganda
Bassago
It seems the stranglehold of oppression is in full swing for the United States and tightening by the day. This one we can lay at the feet of Obama and his enforcers within the DOJ. Seig Heil Amerika!
grandmakdw
I totally agree. I have noticed lately that Pravda has more unbiased reporting than ABC,CBS,NBC, CNN combined.
I am ashamed of what passes for a mainstream journalist these days.
The American of today, in fact, probably enjoys less personal liberty than any other man of Christendom, and even his political liberty is fast succumbing to the new dogma that certain theories of government are virtuous and lawful, and others abhorrent and felonious. Laws limiting the radius of his free activity multiply year by year: It is now practically impossible for him to exhibit anything describable as genuine individuality, either in action or in thought, without running afoul of some harsh and unintelligible penalty. It would surprise no impartial observer if the motto “In God we trust” were one day expunged from the coins of the republic by the Junkers at Washington, and the far more appropriate word, “verboten,” substituted. Nor would it astound any save the most romantic if, at the same time, the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas-relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet. Moreover, this gradual (and, of late, rapidly progressive) decay of freedom goes almost without challenge; the American has grown so accustomed to the denial of his constitutional rights and to the minute regulation of his conduct by swarms of spies, letter-openers, informers and agents provocateurs that he no longer makes any serious protest. The American Credo: A Contribution toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (1920)
therealguyfawkes
The only way we the people can come back from this oppression is if journalists stop suckling themselves on the corporate/government teat and start DOING THEIR JOBS. Only if journalists present a unified front and start pushing back can freedom of the press be saved.
Unless, of course, you really enjoy playing the role of dumb puppet, sitting there being forced to regurgitate talking points with the government's hand elbow-deep up your... you get the picture.
neo96
edit on 12-2-2014 by neo96 because: double dramatic posts whoops
I dunno man, I'm sure that after a page or two some Democrat will come in here and blame this on Bush or the Republicans.
buster2010
So the Nazis would have rated a satisfactory situation? Some people seem to forget or never knew how the Nazis really controlled the press. Saying the government controls the press like the Nazis is laughable at best.
They just made it an arbitrary law that businesses can't restructure themselves, and no one seems to be batting an eye about it. What does that tell you?
Bassago
reply to post by ketsuko
They just made it an arbitrary law that businesses can't restructure themselves, and no one seems to be batting an eye about it. What does that tell you?
Can you elaborate on this new law a bit? Sounds like it may deserve it's own thread.
Maybe it's another example of news story quashing, this time to benefit the real big money players.
neo96
edit on 12-2-2014 by neo96 because: double dramatic posts whoops