Who's right and who is wrong? It's very, very difficult.
A few things I want to say though: 1) There is hardly any free press in the U.S.
I am not all to familiar with the US, as I do not live there, so please excuse me if I am wrong.
As I see it there are only 5 national tv stations in America. As far as I know none of them is really independent. CNN is related to AOL/Time Warner; FOX or ABC also have relations with GE and so on
2) Americans are very patriotic
Note that this does not have to be a bad thing, but IMHO I find that if I were to be an American, it would be very hard for me criticise the President. From what I know that sort of thing is just not done.
Being patriotic is good, but IMO criticism is the basis for a good democracy. Lack of criticism from journalist or sociaty is _not_ a good thing
... There are probably more points to adress, but these are the ones who are most important to me.
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Who's right and who is wrong? It's very, very difficult.
... There are probably more points to adress, but these are the ones who are most important to me.
A few things I want to say though:
1) There is hardly any free press in the U.S.
I am not all to familiar with the US, as I do not live there, so please excuse me if I am wrong. As I see it there are only 5 national tv stations in America. As far as I know none of them is really independent. CNN is related to AOL/Time Warner; FOX or ABC also have relations with GE and so on
2) Americans are very patriotic
Note that this does not have to be a bad thing, but IMHO I find that if I were to be an American, it would be very hard for me criticise the President. From what I know that sort of thing is just not done. Being patriotic is good, but IMO criticism is the basis for a good democracy. Lack of criticism from journalist or sociaty is _not_ a good thing
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