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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Arwa: [QB] Lamin, you wrote: [i] "rule of law, market economies, respect for individual rights, upholding of intellectual freedoms and respect for property rights."[/i] Sounds too good to be true. Let me quote for you Baffour Ankomah: [QUOTE] I have also learned how deceived we all are in Africa about the so-called [b]“free press” [/b]in the West. It is [b]a myth! [/b]It doesn’t exist. [b]Sorry, it exists only in textbooks.[/b] So when you next meet journalists from the BBC or CNN or The New York Times or Le Monde, Newsweek, The Economist, The Guardian, and the rest of them, don’t let them bamboozle you ever again with any highfalutin claims of their [b]“freedom” [/b]to publish whatever is the truth without fear or favour. [b]They have no such freedom![/b] They all serve various agendas dressed up as freedom and objectivity. The New York Times even put the icing on the cake by priding itself on being “the paper of record” that “prints all the news fi t to print”. So, some news is not fi t to print. After all, the Western media accept that they are the “Fourth Estate of the Realm”, which means they are the fourth arm of the State or Establishment (the three others being the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary). You, therefore, want to ask yourself what role has the State or Establishment assigned to the Fourth Estate? We all know the roles assigned to the three other estates. Or are they saying the Fourth Estate is an estate without a role? You bet! In fact I like the sound of it – Fourth Estate and Establishment. Remember the Queen telling Princess Diana’s butler, Paul Burrell: “Be careful, Paul; nobody has ever been as close to a member of my family as you were to Diana. There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge.” Since the Daily Mirror published this extraordinary admission on 6 November 2002, I have often told myself that if the Queen has no knowledge of the powers at work in her own country, of which she is head of state and supposedly the supreme being in the land, then God save the Queen and us all, including the media! What else have I learned in these past 18 years at New African? That the Western media have a cosy relationship with their governments. Governments make the most news in the West, and without them the media cannot survive. Last year, Piers Morgan, the sacked editor of the Daily Mirror published his dairies, in which he made another extraordinary revelation: [b]that in the eight years (1996-2004) that he was editor, he met Tony Blair, more than 58 times! These are his exact words: “The most overriding sense I had in re-living my career in [this book], was the staggering degree of access I enjoyed for so long to the corridors of power and infl uence in this country. At the time it seemed [b][i]perfectly normal[/i][/b] to be having breakfast with a tycoon like Philip Green, lunching with the prime minister, and dining with George Michael. Sometimes all on the same day… [b]“Bored one evening, I counted up all the times I had met Tony Blair. And the result was astonishing really, or slightly shocking – depending on your viewpoint. I had 22 lunches, 6 dinners, 6 interviews, 24 further one-to-one chats over tea and biscuits [that makes 58, and Piers Morgan is not fi nished], and numerous phone calls with him. That’s a lot of face time with arguably Britain’s most important person.”[/b] And it is not only Blair that he met so many times; he met a good deal of Blair’s ministers and offi cials too, from Gordon Brown down, and sometimes their wives and husbands. If Piers Morgan can have such time and space with Blair and his officials, you can imagine how many times Blair & Co have met the other editors of Britain’s “free press”. And I can bet my bottom dollar that they don’t meet to have only tea and biscuits. If a Ghanaian or Zimbabwean editor meets his president 58 times in seven years (not counting the “numerous phone calls”), they would say he has been bought. But it happens in Britain and nobody butts an eyelid – because, as Piers Morgan says, it is [b]“perfectly normal”[/b] . [/QUOTE]As you can see Lamin, it only exists on textbooks. BTW, was it not until [b]1971[/b] Swiss women got the right to vote, and you want to teach Turkey what? Here is a lesson for the so called "Western civilization". [b]People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, especially when their "civilization" is based on myths[/b] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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