An Arab lectures an American citizen on the First Amendment

Too good to pass up. This is from the Arab newspaper. it appears that a certain Ms Lin Hansen, wrote in a letter taking the columnist to task for one of his opinion pieces. In part she wrote:

while writing her article, “Fatin Bundagji conveniently forgot, as Arab writers usually do, that the US was attacked by Arab terrorists which led to retaliatory action in the Middle East and out of America. All those glorious outreach programs she was describing that America used to do would still be in effect and there would be no war waging at the moment if the radical Arabs kept their opinions and hatred of American policies in the academic or political arena... the majority of Americans are getting pretty fed up with handling out billions of dollars in aid, education, medical care, technological advancements, and religious tolerance and so on to a world of egocentric ingrates”.

To which I say Bravo!
Well Fatin Bundagji wasn't going to take that kneeling on a prayer rug, and decided to devote a column on lecturing Ms Hansen on the First Amendment. He cites a retired University of CA professor, yes you know where this going,

“All serious and intelligent journalists today know that the US government has massive media management brigades to carefully control what Americans see and, thus, what they are very likely to believe about things of which they have no direct experience, such as high-level politics, finance and foreign affairs. They also know that the government is extremely effective in secretly censoring the news by using devices such as ‘embedded reporting’ in nations like Afghanistan and Iraq which the US government invades, occupies, and governs.

Gee if the government has that much control why is the New York Times still in business after all of the classified information they have chosen to put on the front page and their blatant disdain for the current administration that they exhibit every day.
The main thrust of Fatin's commentary is that our news is controlled by the government in bed with the major news agencies. He (she) tells us to use Google a couple of times. Might I suggest she do the same thing and look up blogger and internet. Or just check out a local jail since many bloggers in that part of the world are there.