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| Uploaded on Sunday 14 August, 2016 to the media consortium |
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| The censorship of news items by controlled media |
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The influence that can be exerted on media exposure comes with certain caveats. Liberal democracies are defined today as having free and open elections, an independent judiciary, private enterprise, free speech as well as rights afforded to people to petition their elected representatives and contest government policy, and, a free press.
Occupy Wall Street was the name of a protest movement against social and economic inequality worldwide that began on 17 September, 2011 in Zuccotti Park in New York. There was some debate during the initial phase of the protest as to how commensurate the media coverage had been. Of monumental proportions a theme though it was, it garnered scant media exposure in its nascent stage. The mainstream media eventually caved in, but only after protesters took matters into their own hands by spreading the news to millions of people on social media websites.
In 2014, a Gallup poll surveyed more than 66,000 people across 65 countries asking: "which country represents the largest threat to world peace today?" The United States polled the highest at 24%. A surprising 13% of American respondents rated their own country as the biggest threat to world peace. Mainstream media barely reported on it. So inconvenient were the results of the poll that it fell foul of a media blackout. |
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