Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Sould we know everything?

Sould we be entitled to information on everything the government does? Some in the news media seems to think so. Lately the AP (Associated Press) has been under a microscope for information they reported on resulting in hostil actions in a hostil country. Is it fair to blame the AP for something when they were just reporting what info an informant gave them? Think about it. The job of the news media is to report what is going on in the world to its readers, viewers and listners. But what crosses the line? What information souldn't be reported? I would say anything sensitive to the security of our troops and or country sould NEVER be reported. There are things our government doesnt want us to know. There is a reason for that. For instance there have been far more terror attacks that didn't happen. But, you never hear about. Our government doesn't want the terorists to be tipped off. For leaks, blame the one thats doing the leaking not the media reporting the leaky information. The informant knows darn well the information they are giving sould never be open in public. On the other hand it was a deep throughted informent that took down a President.

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