No, I am not a fascist, I just don't think that freedom of the press is such a good thing. When news agencies claim to be completely unbiased, they aren't (hence they are lying) and when they do reports they often try and spin it way out of proportion. My friend and I were interviewed by a newspaper reporter who didn't even speak English properly (kept saying "Yous" instead of you) and then in the article what we said was changed, some stuff we didn't even say at all!

At least with a state press you KNOW it is biased, there was also a news special on a kid (A) who got suspended from my school for getting into a fight with another kid (B), who also got suspended I might add, but the reporters kindly omitted this detail. Why do a special on this? Because A's mother was a lesbian, so they tried to make out that A was attacked by B because of his mother's sexuality, the truth of the matter is that A spat in B's face, so B punched A and the fight started.

In fact B didn't even know that A's mother was a lesbian. A gets teased on the bus to school but kids from his neighbourhood, is the school to blame? Aparently so, as thats how they made it out. The reporters weaved their web of propaganda to influence the minds of the people against my school. However the funny thing is that locals were shocked by how biased the media was and supported the school.

This is why I hate the press, if only they ADMITTED to being biased people maybe wouldn't take everything they hear on the news as fact.

Another example, when NZ troops went to war last year in Papa New Guinea (I think it was) the media portrayed the rebels as suicidal looneys wielding machetes and cutlery, I didn't think that seem right. It turns out that later during the week the reporters admitted "They appear more organised than we first thought" but of course they tried to pin it on the government.

ALL news is propaganda and ALL news is biased (at least to some degree), yet people still believe the lies that are broadcast. Why?