"Argentine Senate passes controversial media bill"
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/10/argentina.media/index.html
If this were to happen in America...well that's just it, it wouldn't! Freedom of speech is such an essential element to the fabric of America, and while it often times gets us into all sorts of trouble, Americans would rather die than have that right taken away. Meanwhile, an new Argentine law has created a regulatory media agency that "targets media outlets critical of the government." Now at first this does seem a little contradictory to basic human rights, but what seems even more absurd to me is that this particular bill would allow the president to choose the majority of the members in this new media regulating group. That seems troublesome. Give the government too much authority over the lives of its people, and well, that's asking for either revolt or dictatorship. I'm not saying that will necessarily happen in Argentina. I guess what I'm really saying is, sometimes I really love America.
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