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First chapter «The media»

Freedom of expression is the right of every natural person, even if a person chooses to behave irrationally to express his or her insanity. It is also the right of corporate bodies to freely express their corporate identity as such. However, individuals in both cases express only themselves. A private individual represents only himself and a corporate body represents only the status of the group of individuals that make up that corporate body. Therefore, when an individual expresses himself as insane for example, it does not mean that the rest of society is insane. An individual’s expression is his own alone, and a corporate body’s expression expresses only the interests or viewpoint of the group. A tobacco producing or distributing company for example expresses the interests of the parties comprising the company, i.e. those who are making profit from producing or selling tobacco, although it is hazardous to health. The press is society’s medium of expression, not an individual’s or corporate body’s medium of expression. Therefore, it cannot be logically or democratically the private property of such persons. Any newspaper privately owned by an individual is a medium expressing only the views of this individual. To claim that it expresses public opinion is false and groundless because it expresses the views of one individual. However, while it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person’s insanity. On the other hand, a newspaper published by members of a certain profession, is a medium of expression exclusive to this professional group. It presents their own points of view and not that of the C public. This applies to all other corporate and private individuals in society. The democratic press is the mass media published and broadcast by a People’s Committee, comprising members from all the various groups in society without exception. Only in this case, and in no other situation, will the press or any other information medium be democratic, expressing the viewpoints of society as a whole, representing all its various groups. If members of the medical profession publish a journal, then this journal must necessarily be a purely medical publication. This same condition applies to all other professions. While individuals have a natural right to self-expression, the principles of democracy do not give individuals the right to express anyone else’s opinions. Only in this manner is the so-called problem of the freedom of the press radically and democratically solved. The problem of the freedom of the press, which is still a controversial problem the world over, persists as a result of the problem of democracy in general, and no solution can be found unless the crisis of democracy is entirely resolved in any given society. The only way to resolve the intricate problem of democracy is by applying the Third Universal Theory. According to this theory, the democratic system is a cohesive structure whose foundation stones are firmly laid one above the other, the Basic People’s Congresses, the People’s Congresses, and the People’s Committees, which finally come together when the General People’s Congress convenes. There is absolutely no conception of a democratic society other than this. To summarize, the era of the masses is rapidly advancing towards us to overtake the era of republics; it excites the emotions and dazzles the eyes. But in so much as it heralds the advent of real freedom for the masses and the blissful emancipation from the chains of all instruments of government, it is also the harbinger of a chaotic and tumultuous era if the new democracy - the authority of the people - were to suffer a relapse. Such an era would bring back autocracy, or the rule of one social class, tribe, sect or political party. Theoretically, this is genuine democracy, but in reality, the strong always rule: that is to say those who are strongest in society hold the reigns of power.

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