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[Earl Benser]

It may be a sad fact...

.... but freedom of the press includes essentially has to allow for all <br />sorts of garbage publications, even those which wouoldn't print the <br />truth no matter what.<br /><br />Intelligent people just ignore them. The rest of the population <br />remain vulnerable.

[sanenazok]

You forget

that it's Europe without the First Amendment. Instead, there you can shut off anything so long as it continues "Democratic Principles," whatever those may be. So people in Europe lack a certain ability to critique, which is the direction the American public is heading.<br /><br />The ultra-liberal press in Italy gets about as much readership as Union newsletters get in the US, meaning only their members receive them, and then only a small minority read them. Those that read them, however, don't really question them.