Posted on 2/12/2006, 5:20:38 PM by EBH
Just Why Bloggers and the Internet May Save Freedom of Speech 2/12/2006
Bloggers all around the globe are writing, posting, chatting and are perplexed at the Main Stream Media (MSM); for blatant failure to defend the Freedom of Speech and for failure to report the whole cartoon story. As such, it was again Bloggers who unraveled the mystery to an event and this time it may have significant historical value. A dozen cultural satire cartoons published nearly 6 months ago, suddenly cause the Arab street to erupt in protests, violence, and death?
No, it was the New Media-Bloggers, which uncovered the truth of what incited the violence. A lowly Danish Imam decided he wasn’t getting enough attention brought to his issue. He wasn’t satisfied with the apology he received or how slow the courts were moving in his matter or that the Danish government told him they didn’t control the press in a FREE country. So, he took his concerns back home to the Middle East. But it was the New Media-Bloggers that revealed he had added items that had never been printed, added accusations that were patently untrue, including even a bogus AP photo from a pig-squealing contest.
A few weeks later the Western world watches in horror as the Arab Street erupts. Protests in the EU with signs threaten “Death to those who insult Islam.” A few brave EU papers reprint the cartoons in solidarity and in defiance to the threatened terrorism. But, it is the MSM, who buckles in fear, even in America the so-called bastion of Free Speech. Yes, they can dance around all the placating rhetoric they want, but we citizens of the Free World recognize what they did. They let the terrorists win this round.
The MSM has reporters in the Middle East. As such, they need to protect those people who work for them. Printing the cartoons would have put those reporters in immediate danger. Although they don’t seem to have a soul to understand that they have done the same to soldiers with the printing of some photos they called news. It is today that the MSM has been cowed by fear.
On the other hand, Bloggers have been voracious in the pursuit of the story. Connecting the dots and disseminating the truth of the matter. What is that truth? The Free World was scammed, by a lowly little Danish Imam who incited violence on a global scale, over a dozen cartoons and a few added pictures for extra measure. It was Bloggers feeding up to the MSM to let them know they missed the story and yet the MSM refuses to call the Muslims on their ploy. They refuse to correct the story, to tell the truth of the matter, to plaster the radical dastardly deeds across the front pages for all to read and understand.
The Western world got played this time, but so did the Muslim world as it was them that were fed the bogus photos, blatant lies, and half-truths that radicalized the message they heard.
"Just Why Bloggers and the Internet May Save Freedom of Speech ..."
Well, the InterNet may be our only salvation because the Fifth Estate (the MEDIA) is in reality and in effect the enemy FIFTH COLUMN.
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