World Press Freedom Day

Today again we celebrate the world press freedom day. Which I could say we celebrate it for real but the truth is far away from it. Press freedom is still something we have to talk about, think about and fight for. Only each 6. man on the world lives in a country with press freedom as it is written in law, more or lesson. That is the lowest number since we've started to have a free press. 
But what does this number say? Not much actually or? It says that most people can't have a free press around them. Though more and more people are able to read, the things they read are mostly censored and directed. A lot of propaganda is in the press and a lot lies and more or lesson lies. 
The owner of most newspaper still come from the politic and so they say what and how to write. Or they are from the industry. So even in ol' Europe the press is in that case very one-sided. 
That makes it so difficult to tell people what to believe, when you discuss a theme. Actually most people don't reflect what they read cos they never learned to question. The same is for TV. Yes TV lies more then you could have ever imagine. The stories, the pictures are made up like a movie. It is drama, it is short but also very clearly one-sided. 
Though we are lucky that many bad things come up which have been hidden from us- it is as lucky we can be just the top of the iceberg. 
But fortunately there are little newspaper and magazines who report against all odds. They risk a lot. Not only reputation, life and security. They also risk a lot of money, because they have to find a way to survive on it's own. This is a hard thing to do and heroic- you may believe but no, it is just a must. 
Some people want you to learn to see, to understand and to be more free, because we are far to easy going with our freedom of free press, speech and our own information.
Just this year, 166 online- activist are looked. Only this year have been already 16 Journalists and 9 online- activist murdered. And this is just the number we get official. 
In fact we have a big problem to get our true information. Many countries have sett out laws which makes it next to impossible to work as an journalist. many countries have put up rules for paying high for a visit for special places like detention - to see and write about it. They don't want you to know that the government is hiding refuges on such bad places that the human rights are killed. 
These are just some ideas for you to get a bit of the picture we have to deal with. 
Why is this so important? It is very simple actually. The freedom of press is a sign for your freedom to live. But as I mention far to many take their freedom for given. And just when I think about my own country and a man called Edward Snowden, I could wonder. Why my own government is not showing any sign of caring for the fact that they have to protect us? NSA is doing an absolutely disturbing thing and it is all against the right of our freedom of information etc.. I really don't have to go deeper into this! 
Espionage is against press freedom, is against your freedom of keeping your secrets and well just your own information to keep to yourself. Whatever you do, you should be the one to say what is allowed to known for others. And a press must be free to investigate without getting a hammer in the knees. Which is happening when you have things like NSA going in that scale! But even if it is not that, we buy with credit cards and go to Amazon, Facebook etc. We leave our information and more information we want them to have, but they don't ask us and they also try to avoid to get the press inside their companies, because if we could read a bout it, would we be so easy going with our information? If our journalist could tell us what they really do with our lives and in our lives, would we be that naive? 
I guess not. So this is another reason why we have a very low press freedom, if at all. Most of us are just unaware of these facts. Some choose to stay blind.
Although some may say the press is lying why reading then?! Oh yes, they did a good work to make us unsure, but without a press and even it is such with little truth, the common people would not have had any chance to know what is going on, because even in lies we can read true things and we know what the devil is doing. This is why we better question what we read, why it is better to ask ourself who has an interest that we read this and that just in that moment.
So keeping up the good work is important and as more and more things are coming up to remind us and to show us, it is very important to keep up the fight for a free press. 

How powerful press and online-activists are is easy to see with every revolution, with every cut a system does. Just take the new "big" thing Russia. Next to all I know who wrote critical about the countries politic or have a theme which concern them- so they think- has been banned or blocked. 
The blog community can see it as we can read where our followers comes from and even those who wrote little lost their readers from Russia in the last month. 
And this is just for this country!
There you see how important it is to keep open ways, to find ways to open new ways and to speak out for free press and to tell people to take a deeper look and to have a bit courage.

Love & Light