The problem is that the MSM only tell the story one way and there are a lot of citizens out there who take the medias word like it is absolute. If you think not listen to C-Span sometime. I am an older citizen and it would absolutely amaze you at what people believe and buy and never even try to look into it. I dropped my membership in AARP simply because of all this crap they put out and elderly people buy it as though it is the gospel. Go into poor neighborhoods and your local schools.Look at what is coming out of your bastions of higher education you even have professors advocating military troops fragging their officers. Freedom of speech is wonderful but it is destroying the soul and fiber of the American public. When the MSM retracts something it is hidden away in the back of the paper and I do not believe CBS ever really retracted the Mapes story. I just think the MSM is as corrupt as our Congress and everything the media in this country puts out is opinion more than truth and it is directed by those in DC or New York City of which both are liberal. Your scenario is good up to a point but America is in dire straights and our younger loved ones are going to pay for us allowing it to get out of hand.
...Go into poor neighborhoods and your local schools. Look at what is coming out of your bastions of higher education you even have professors advocating military troops fragging their officers. Freedom of speech is wonderful but it is destroying the soul and fiber of the American public... I am under no illusion as to the scale of the problem. It's huge, but the fiber and soul of the American public IS freedom. Freedom of speech is paramount to our identity. I believe that just as natural corrections occur in a "free market economy" so too will there be natural corrections in "free market of information". To say that it will occur naturally is not to suggest individuals like you and I should sit back and wait… I am suggesting that hard work, faith in, and support for our American ideology will empower us to deliver a truth capable of supplanting the true American scourge, irresponsibility!
The truth and our commitment to it has been the engine that has thrust the United States into our current role as the world’s most capable nation. Any person who forsakes the truth in favor of lies deserves to be assaulted with the truth, hence an ensuing war of ideas. Our founding fathers knew that on any ideological battlefield, with free speech, Americans would always have the high ground. You and I sir, have the high ground… what should we do with it?