US and UK have the control over western media because of the
popularity of English language. So western media have press freedom
? Not when it come to issue affecting their national interests for
example the Snowden's case or the Wikileaks case.
Snowden is still under Russian protection mind you. Wikileaks
Julian Assange is still hiding in the Emadassy of Ecuador in UK.
These are proof that western media has limited freedom.
As such we can easily prove that all the western media be it BBC
or New York Times or CNN etc are being controlled by their govt so
that they won't print things the US govt doesn't want to see.
These media are own by big tycoons or govt itself. So control is
really not as hard as you think. Errant reporters can be easily
fired or demoted.
As far as the US govt is concerned influening the minds of their
own countrymen is of ultmost importance. So we do see more freedom
in UK rather than US. Case in point is the report on Israel Lobby
by two US university professors could not be published in US
because no publisher willing to do it so it ended up publish in
UK.
But all in all the western media especially English medium in
the western world are being used to promote their political agenda
exactly like what happen in China.
Why China received more criticism ? Because we read English and
our newspapers re-print articles from Reuters, nytrimes, Bloomberg
etc.
In order not to allow western govt together with their media to
subvert Chinese national interests they are being forced to build
the great firewall to protect themselves.
So why then the UK and US do not need firewall ? Simply because
through many years of brainwashing people in general around the
world nowadays blindly believe in almost everything they said
through their media.
Another case in point. Why do you think the European didn't
support the US when they attacked Iraq ? Because Saddam Hussein
wanted to convert all his oil money reserve from US dollars deposit
to Euro.
Have you seen western media reported about it or explained or
analyzed it for everyone around the world to understand just like
the way analyze their enemy China ? None whatsoever.
Good analysis!keep in mind most of news companies are MNCs too
big to be controlled by govt in any country.Why was Gadaffi
killed?Because he want to introduce a new currency for trading
based on GOld,not US$.
