End of free press? ~ By Joseph Farah

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Joseph Farah Posted: December 19, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Will globalism spell the end of free speech and freedom of the press? I wrote a book a few years ago called "Stop the Presses! The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution." In researching a chapter on the history of the free press, I was surprised to learn just how short and spotty that history is. In fact, it would be accurate to say freedom of press as we know it today was birthed in colonial America and enshrined as a natural "right" for the first time in the Constitution of the United States. That means the very concept is a little over 230 years old – the blink of an eye historically speaking. Further, freedom of the press is still little regarded by most of the world. It might even be more accurate to state that it is viewed as a threat to most authoritarian and totalitarian regimes – perhaps the biggest threat next to private ownership of firearms. With this background in mind, consider the banning of WND's access to and coverage of the U.N.'s Copenhagen climate convention over the last two weeks. So far as I can tell, WND was the only legitimate news agency banned by the U.N. convention – and banned on provably erroneous grounds that were merely a pretext for denying the one press outlet that has been skeptical of the hysterical claims about manmade, catastrophic global warming. This is the same United Nations that provides free and open access to the Nation of Islam and Hamas – even providing free office space to Louis Farrakhan's hate-mongering and fear-mongering racist newspaper, the Final Call. Do you get the picture? Think about this. Take it in. Consider what it portends for your future. READ FULL STORY >