On Sat, 02 May 2009 17:52:05 -0400, Warp wrote:

>   But my point is that in many countries the free press is consistently
> biased towards certain things, which *effectively* makes them not so
> free after all. People are still getting biased information, sometimes
> to the point that they are truely deceived.

Depends on whether or not people look to only one source for their news 
or not.

Nearly anything that's reported is going to have some sort of bias - 
totally unbiased reporting is extremely rare.  Most of the so-called 
"news" organizations spend less time providing factual information and 
more time providing editorialized opinions.

But by definition, a "free press" is allowed to do just that - they're 
free to report the news more or less as they see fit.

Jim

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