Years ago, I had a friend in Hungary who worked for the official, government controlled central and only one news organization. The time was after the 1956 revolution with the Soviet backed government in place. This friend was pretty much in sync with the regime. For a while her job entailed reading all the news information coming in through the wires from all over the world and decide which item could be published to the public. In short, she was censoring what the everyday citizens could read in the papers.
Only bad and detrimental items were allowed to be publicized, nothing nice. They wanted people to believe that they lived in a socialist paradise and out in the cold west it was just plain bad. So, while she was very well informed about the going ons in the world she could not let the public in on those things.
Now, I am convinced that such censorship exists here in the land of the free. We only see one sided stories in the media, both electronic and printed. However, thanks to the Internet things can not be kept quiet very long. By watching newscasts from other countries, we can see and hear news items that are not shown here in the US. Either because American media companies don't think they are newsworthy or because of mandatory or self imposed censorship.
It is never a good thing to keep the truth from the people. Eventually they will find out the truth and that is when all hell breaks loose. That is when accountability comes up, questions will be asked.
Good country America?
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