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> A. Who specified this implied contract? Nobody specifies implied contracts. They are implied. In the case of the USA, from centuries of understanding that w
by throw646577 2y ago
> A. Who specified this implied contract?
Nobody specifies implied contracts. They are implied.
In the case of the USA, from centuries of understanding that what marked the USA out as different to the European states from which people were dissenting was a commitment that power would answer to truth and constitutional protections to enable that.
(I'm a Brit but this is obvious to me)
> That’s a warning sign to the media they’ve overstepped their bounds.
If this is the way people are now thinking, then they deserve the Rollerball future they are building for themselves.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoIn that case, considering we fought a war to be free of your government, there’s an implied contract I must follow, that Brits get zero say on American politics. This implied contract is even older than modern journalism.
- throw646577 2y agoThat truth should answer to power is one of the USA's greatest exports; it strengthened journalistic traditions the world over. If you're happy to see this curtailed in the ways you're expressing, I cannot help you understand the downsides.
- throw646577 2y agoThat power should answer to truth, I mean. Or that truth should speak to power. Brain failing due to hunger