Quote Originally Posted by IDCrewDawg View Post
Those in power usually don't want the public to know the truth. For those in power usually have strong ties to the cooperations that funded their election. Doing political things to favor the people who elected you is bound to lead to corruption, if the press is free to write about it, they are bound to loose their power.

Yea Tom it's scary.
um...yeah. I don't think you're on target. These numbers aren't based on what major corporations or the government think, but people in the street. ie people "without" power.

Why would ordinary people ever be against freedom of the press? That's the issue here. And those who aren't against free press, who would they want to regulate it. I'm sure that, that one question cannot have popped up in the minds of those who answered against free press. Is it that people in general are extremely stupid or do know something I don't? These numbers aren't only in oppressed countries like Russia. It's in the west to. Even in "the land of the free".