The free press was created by the first amendment to the US Constitution. It is free in that it is not controlled by the government-merely enabled by the government. It really is not free in 2019 because it answers to a calling other than to the people. Corporate masters and liberal progressive socialist owners call the shots and the shots are almost always directed at the general public save for those who may subscribe to the same ideology.The fourth estate of power is supposed to be the press alongside the presidency, the Congress, and the courts. Many believe that through corruption and affiliations with political parties, corporations, owners, and donors, the idea of a fourth estate to protect the people from all other aspects of government has passed on with the dodo bird. The corruption of the press after its death is most obvious in many ways, especially their tireless effort to destroy the legitimate Trump presidencyThe way the press hopped on President Richard Nixon in 1974 after he had won two electoral landslides is seen by many as the beginning of the death of the press as a protective element of the people's power. The Washington Post and the US Press brought down the Nixon Administration. Like today v Trump, the Beltway media moguls had it out for Nixon and, right or wrong. They were able to marshal public opinion against him. Nixon did not own the media and so he lost the battle. In those days, approval of the media by the public was in the high seventies, while today, approval sits in the low teens with little respect from people who think. As important as it is to change politicians regularly, the public is in dire need to figure out how to replace a media gone corrupt before it takes America down. Despite devoting many dozens of reporters to bring down Trump, the corrupt press has been unable to do so as "The Donald" knows their game better than they do, and so far, he has played it better than they. The press, is supposed to be above politics but recently it aligns itself with government, political parties, corporations, unions, and other entities, instead of the people. It has not been serving its constitutional role, and so it deserves no special treatment as a fourth estate of US power. In fact, the people are obligated to reign it in.Brian W. Kelly wrote this book so that all Americans can understand the correct role of the press, and the all-encompassing media power of the press. A resurgence of honesty in jou
About the Author: Brian W. Kelly is a retired Assistant Professor in the Business Information Technology (BIT) program at Marywood University, where he also served as the IBM i and midrange systems technical advisor to the IT faculty. Kelly developed and taught many college and professional courses in the IT and business areas. He is also a contributing technical editor to IT Jungle's "The Four Hundred" and "Four Hundred Guru" Newsletters. A former IBM Senior Systems Engineer, he has an active consultancy in the information technology field, (www.kellyconsulting.com). He is the author of 170 other books and hundreds of articles about IT and topics about America. Kelly is a frequent speaker at US conferences such as COMMON, IBM Technical conferences, as well as computer user group meetings across the United States. Your author is always ready to accept invitations to speak at political rallies on behalf of conservative and nationalist candidates. Brian ran for Congress as a conservative Democrat in 2010, took no donations, and shook up the political world in Northeastern PA when he scored 17% of the vote in a three man-race.