Saturday 15 January 2011

STREET FREEDOM NEWS (because "freedom-of-the-press" means "how" you read not "what" you read)

According to the last report of Freedom House, the press in Italy is as partly-free as Bangladesh, a But, if you live in Bangladesh, and you are too ignorant to understand the problems of your country or too poor to spend the time reading instead working...the freedom of the press for you is not about what you read everyday: freedom means how you can read everytime.


Differences and Similarities
Italians know that their newspapers are toilet-paper, expensive toilet-paper. They don't need to read newspapers, but they are still trusting on them. There is Internet, but they don't know.
Bangladeshis have a different point of view, newspapers is very often the only way to read or know about the things and often it is the only tool against the illiteracy. They need to read and it is not important what.

Now, there are no differences if you are Italian or Bangladeshi: in either case, what you read could be a fake news or a government's fabrication and -in either case- if you like to read newspapers "spending a penny" in the toilet, you can (in Dhaka, you can "spend a penny" in the street reading the newspaper on the wall - and without paying one penny!): the main thing is that when you know that your country is not a completely-free-country, it is better live where you can get your personal little slice of freedom reading in the street.

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