I recently read an article written by RJ Rummel of Hawaii University. In the article he talked about the direct connection between free press and peace/democracy. With democracy comes rights, one of those rights would be freedom of press or freedom to criticize the leadership. It is pretty simple, the most democratic counties and the most free press and vice versa. Now to bring in the peace part. If you notice around the world you won't see democracies fighting other democracies because there is no need to. Everything can be solved diplomatically.
I still question how this can all link back to freedom of speech because he goes way off topic at the end of the article. No offense to him but I believe I could write a better article than that.
Freedom of Press--a way to global peace
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