The darkness of Africa
South Africa’s Freedom Day is just past, and World Press Freedom Day is just around the corner. An opportune time, then, to highlight some troubling developments on the continent in The darkness of Africa. Governments are naturally at odds with a free press, but their attempts to control it are a danger to liberty and prosperity.
99.9% of the media is in philosophical agreement with statism in any case. While they may pick-up on some of the more obscure and insidious incidences of corruption etc. they are still shills for the most blatantly criminal aspects of the regime.
And this is important, because the press generates the side-shows that draw the public’s awareness away from the fact that governments, democratic or otherwise, are basically “thieves writ large”, as Rothbard said.
A “free” press is not an enemy to government, it is one of its most important allies.