Do you believe what you listen or see? You might have heard about Goldman’s news from headline or updates about health care reform. Every day we are exposed to lots of information from every field and we choose whatever we watch or read. We tend to believe the mass media does not influence our way to see things or judge, but the information which we get directly from mass media is most of the time manipulated. Fortunately we are living in a country which supports the press’ freedom so we can know what happened in our history or what is going on in our society but there are lots of places don’t. The basic right is encroached by intention.
According to survey assessed of the 195 countries and territories by the organization Freedom House in 2008, it found that only 17 percent of the people in this world live in countries that enjoy a Free press while 41 percent have a Partly Free press and 42 percent have a Not Free press . Obviously the places of Partly Free and Not Free parts are shown in low-educated countries compared with developed country. The countries which are designated as a Not Free section would be under the government, which puts pressure to reporters to cover the news and abuses an ability of media as tools to make their citizens blocked from any information that has hazard. You can imagine what sort of politics the leader will perform. People will be deaf and dumb like a babe in the woods. To make matters worse is that if the government pushes them down with force, people can’t realize that is immoral because of the lack of information. It’s the easiest and fastest way to make people’s head empty.
Here is another example. Before Google withdrawn, if you want to search “Tiananmen square protest”, you could find only travel pictures on Google China. There is a total different view on other Google sites; we can find some pictures of military tanks which you can never find on Google China. This fact demonstrates how Chinese government takes the right to know from their citizens. In this case, there is no way for the upcoming Chinese generation to know about the historical incident. It’s clearly to know that those students cannot get a right education about true history from their school. This is the way the shameful history is fade.
You may wonder how about communism. Compared with democracy, it’s not easy to get some information about pro-communism because most of leaders in democratic societies don’t want their citizens to start being interested too much regarding this topic which may lead to some sort of new adepts. Before even noticed it, book containing deep contents about communism are not released that much and even published. The world we are living in is made by few of influence. You should feel like you are betrayed by your reliable country, but still now, we have no idea what kind of information is taken away or given to us. We just know what we can reach.
The press is a bridge between people and society which connect each other and it should be neutral by keeping away from both sides. If the bridge is rotten, those big communities cannot be connected, and then it cannot be called as a society. The press shouldn’t be a tool for politics or economy. The freedom of the press and the freedom of expression must be guaranteed. Both our history and the fact which is happening now are should not be hidden. Human being is not for society; we make our own community.
According to survey assessed of the 195 countries and territories by the organization Freedom House in 2008, it found that only 17 percent of the people in this world live in countries that enjoy a Free press while 41 percent have a Partly Free press and 42 percent have a Not Free press . Obviously the places of Partly Free and Not Free parts are shown in low-educated countries compared with developed country. The countries which are designated as a Not Free section would be under the government, which puts pressure to reporters to cover the news and abuses an ability of media as tools to make their citizens blocked from any information that has hazard. You can imagine what sort of politics the leader will perform. People will be deaf and dumb like a babe in the woods. To make matters worse is that if the government pushes them down with force, people can’t realize that is immoral because of the lack of information. It’s the easiest and fastest way to make people’s head empty.
Here is another example. Before Google withdrawn, if you want to search “Tiananmen square protest”, you could find only travel pictures on Google China. There is a total different view on other Google sites; we can find some pictures of military tanks which you can never find on Google China. This fact demonstrates how Chinese government takes the right to know from their citizens. In this case, there is no way for the upcoming Chinese generation to know about the historical incident. It’s clearly to know that those students cannot get a right education about true history from their school. This is the way the shameful history is fade.
You may wonder how about communism. Compared with democracy, it’s not easy to get some information about pro-communism because most of leaders in democratic societies don’t want their citizens to start being interested too much regarding this topic which may lead to some sort of new adepts. Before even noticed it, book containing deep contents about communism are not released that much and even published. The world we are living in is made by few of influence. You should feel like you are betrayed by your reliable country, but still now, we have no idea what kind of information is taken away or given to us. We just know what we can reach.
The press is a bridge between people and society which connect each other and it should be neutral by keeping away from both sides. If the bridge is rotten, those big communities cannot be connected, and then it cannot be called as a society. The press shouldn’t be a tool for politics or economy. The freedom of the press and the freedom of expression must be guaranteed. Both our history and the fact which is happening now are should not be hidden. Human being is not for society; we make our own community.
