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Freedom Through The PressTears streamed down a broken faceThat stared to the ground where his father layAt lexington was he dying this dayFor a battle lost, and a war begun.In a young boys hand, A father lifted his headTo front at a son, so confused and afraidWho understood not, for what his father bledWhy he would fight, What reason for death.And so as they looked eye to eyeThe boys innocuous lips formed the question, why?Then With inhuman strength, A father lifts dying fingers to skyPointing to a cloth, flying on highHis heart burns kindred fire, beats like a drumAs with his last breath he whispersFREEDOM56 hands signed a Declaration of Independence, risking their lives. 1000s of menand boys died in the Revolutionary war, And 100s of 1000s more fought and diedin wars to come. 56 men created and signed a document of g everywherenment so perfectit has endured the test of duration for over 200 years. Millions of people havegiven precious support in the fight for equality and aga inst racism. Forwhat reason did many people risk their lives and sacrifice so much? democracyn. gov. by the people... Their hearts burned brightly with the fires of freedom.     We have been handed a Democracy, handed freedom. And now we must eitherthrow this hereditary pattern away, by taking it for granted or we must fight our ownbattle, a battle without bullets or threats, a battle for democracy. ForFreedom isnt Free. We must bump ourselves. It is an almost an obvious factthat in order for us to rule, we need information. If the ruling body does nothave information than it posterior do postcode but act blindly, without direction.This information comes from the media but, in order for the media accomplishthis informative purpose, so that we the people can rule ourselves, can have ademocracy, and can be free, we must do three things Redefine democracy, Listento the press, and control our press. Our first problem is to redefine democracy.    & nbspImagine, a young polish factory doer reads daily in papers that tellhim he is free, because the communistic government allows elections. The Presstells him his government has the economy under control. Yet he finds himselfspending his time and money standing in line to buy over-priced bread so hisbabies can live another day. Among the graffiti that began to appear in Polandwas an especially monumental complaint, Prasa klamie ("The press lies").     However, free media from countries like the U.