Government withholding the Truth

Pooja Kar 9/11/07
English 3/Mr.Spikin Period 1
Homework-
How would it be possible for a government to keep the truth from its citizens?
It would be possible for the government to keep the truth from its citizens because they can just tell us what they think we want to hear. They go on conference, that technically kind of trying to show us that they have the problem under control. But the truth could be that they don’t. The news people could be telling the truth or telling us what they heard from the source. In general the governments tells us what they think is going to happen but not what is really going on.
For what reasons would a government want to control or manipulate information?
There are many reasons that the government wants to manipulate information:
· They don’t want to be over thrown by the people.
· It’s centralized and they don’t want their power to be out of control because it’s balanced.
· To keep them and us in a good side so we could vote for them again in the next election.
· They don’t want the people to be scared so the economy doesn’t fall.