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[–] SpikyAube 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I can't bring myself to read them even for research, it makes me feel so awful and angry and helpless and upset. I don't get why people seem to think freedom of the press means 'freedom to lie in order to pursue the agenda of the billionaire boss by manipulating public opinion.' I have no idea why the Leveson inquiry didn't go anywhere, you'd think that a democratically elected government would welcome the opportunity to establish some ethical controls on the press, you know, protect journalists' integrity and ability to report freely and honestly, AND protect the public from being harassed, lied about, spied on etc by journalists, AND to ensure that the media cannot simply print outright lies, which are only retracted later in tiny writing on the back page that nobody reads. It would also be good if journalists, broadcasters, media moguls etc, were prohibited by law from interacting socially with politicians, or in any capacity other than work related information exchange.

It's just so obvious there is no free press in the UK, the US and many Western 'democracies.' Just because it's a couple of international billionaire businessmen that a control the media, and not the government, doesn't mean the press is free. It's even worse, really, because the people who decide what reality we think we live in aren't even elected and often don\t even live in the countries they pollute with their toxic disinformation. Gah...