Firing a police officer for mentioning Obama's middle name is extreme, no?
There is (fortunately) a difference between what the press tries to throw down your throat and what the reader trully thinks. Publishers are on a one-way podium in that they do all the talking... and, if they talk long enough, loud enough, and with societal backlashes if the reader doesn't agree, then the readers are silenced.
Trust me, for every reader of a publication there is a different mindset that absorbs the words differently. The only problem with media is that there is no forum for the reader to hit back with the exception of rallies & elections and... uhmmm... all of which are covered by what? The media.
Thank god for the internet. The "hit" back to the media comes in the form of an open forum with one exception: no dirty words.
Now then... how better for a society to communicate than an open forum? I wonder what was said on the internet about the policeman nearly fired for speaking Obama's middle name?
