Reply #22: The European "media" is allowed to run with just about any [View All]

[bush_is_wacko]

half baked theory they want to run with! THAT is the main difference between them and us. ALL of their papers are like tabloids. Europeans are basically left to themselves to find the TRUTH in all of it. I guess I'm torn between the publics right to know and the printing of "factual" information but it seems to me the European system uncovers a WHOLE lot more facts by letting it's press run with whatever they've got. I will say some of the more controversial stories they run with tend to be denied as conspiracy theories by the other side fairly quickly, but they are still allowed to run with them in most cases.

As far as religion goes European Kings and Queens were the driving force behind creating religions that allowed them more freedom than the Catholic religion did. When they wanted a special dispensation for themselves and the Catholic church stood firm they just created another religion that gave them those freedoms.

However, I will tell you you'd be sorely mistaken to believe there isn't a class of privilege in those countries! From what I can tell you don't get anywhere in those countries without a pedigree. You may reach a glass ceiling of middle management but you are NOT likely to EVER go any further than that.