Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Law is neccesary, but so is accurate 'reporting'.

The Constitutional protection of Freedom and Equality can only be accomplished by Just laws. Law becomes the means by which Order and Justice is organized at the Top and the Bottom. If laws are unjust, they must be changed. If law does not function as it must, law must be 're-worked and improved'. The Bottom cannot survive in a Nation of prejudice and basic unfairness. Unfortunately, the human condition is not capable of governing millions. Any Nation that has a population of millions and does not have Just laws cannot survive. Without laws, we regress to the world of animal Nature. If we purport to be a civilization, we need Law and Order. Hence, any dissatisfaction with the results of legal proceedings calls for a justifiable change in the substantive law. Of course, no Branch of government and no human being is perfect. We have said that the Bottom of democracy is the essence of governing. But, we cannot forget the imperfections of the human condition and what has recently become more glaring is that not only triadic government has become a victim of the Linguistic Turn, but so has the institution of the Media. The Medias 'play with words' is worse and regrettable. Its worse because they know what inaccurate reportage can do. The media, of all institutions, is aware about the effects of using certain words. The media reports on every side of life within a Nation, including legal proceedings in the Courts. One has only to read one newspaper article on the Zimmerman trial to see how far the media 'fans' the flames of inaccuracy. I cannot assume that they do not know what they are doing. Sure, racial prejudice and legal unfairness in society must also be eliminated, but we cannot have the media aggravating the situation. They know better and they have to weigh the need to report accurately with the need to get headlines and sell newspapers. Its the people at the bottom who 'pay the price'.

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