God Bless America,but not all of it.

There is a move enunciated by John Kerry to diminish the reporting of RT (the Russian external news service) because of its questioning the American point of view. In the White House Press Briefing the reporter from RT gets short shift from the American Press Secretary addressing the press by refusing to answer RT's questions.
Of course there is no equivalent of a free press in Russia and Putin has blood on his hands in the way he deals with any opposition.
But two wrongs don't make a right and the way the American Administration, seeped in its own quagmire of deceit and obfuscation. The leader of a supposed free West, built on openness and justice. A country that on the one hand prides its self on the openness of its Court's and a Constitution that most countries in the world would die for and yet has a very dark side in the CIA and other government special agencies, not to mention the abomination of Guantanamo Bay.
We, the public have, for the first time the opportunity to pick and choose our news source and form our own opinions. The internet and the smart phone give us instant access to the good and the bad things that are happening each minute around the globe. Its a phenomenon that world leaders hate, their story questioned by their electorate and we see the result. The White House instructing the American people to ignore the reporting of a foreign news service because it conflicts with the message the American Administration wishes to proclaim as the truth.
I know they have become more evangelical in their self belief but this borders on religiosity.
From my early years I was taught to sample from as many sources as you could before making up your mind about anything and then be prepared to change your mind as new information arises.
God bless America but save us from their pompous politicians and the self justification that President Bush's war on terror has induced on a good country.