Blog 5

Milton argues that society needs a free marketplace of ideas, a streaming fountain of knowledge as he calls it, in order to grow and progress. Does our media have a responsibility to contribute only objective information into that marketplace? Why?

I believe that our media should only state the facts and let the people decide how they are going to perceive it. We should think for ourselves because in turn the media is handicapping some peoples abbilities to think for theirselves. Although the media is a buisness and needs to make money so they provide the stories with a spin intended to please their viewers instead of stating the truth which would benefit all.