自由而独立的新闻界被说成是民主制度必不可少的条件。人们一向认为美国在这方面得天独厚。但是在现实中,我们的新闻界远非什么“自由”——无论你从何种意义上解释这个字眼。我们的全部政治生活,几乎都是通过新闻媒介来经历的:我们看什么,听什么,不看什么,不听什么,我们如何观察问题,甚至我们把什么叫做“问题”或“事件”等等,在极大 Free and independent press is said to be an indispensable condition for a democratic system. People always think that the United States is blessed here. But in reality, our press is far from “free” - no matter what meaning you interpret the word. Almost all of our political life is experienced through the media: what we look at, what we listen to, what we do not see, what we do not observe, how we observe the problem, and what we call “problems” or “events”, etc. , Great