Posted on 03/27/2018 9:38:04 AM PDT by rktman
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
When the amendments to Constitution were set forth and codified, the word “Abridged” meant: “deprive, to reduce in scope, to diminish.” Yet complicit with Congress, that is exactly what the so-called “press” is committed to doing to you and me.
The very first newspaper published in America was the “Publick Occurences, Both Foreign and Domestick,” in Boston, Massachusetts, Sept. 25, 1690. As was noted many times from those humble beginnings: “In early America, the colonists’ thirst for news from Europe and their growing urge for free speech helped spark an unrelenting demand for [newspapers].”
Thus the origin of this first “media” was noble, and its intent was to inform. At the time of the writing of our Constitution, our Founding Father understood the necessity for the press not to be “abridged” in any way or else the people dependent upon same would be deprived of the truth and would instead be fed a diet of government-invented political propaganda. Yet that is exactly what the press has devolved into.
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Socialism/Communism cannot exist in cooperation with other freer forms of government. it must triumph or die. Truth tends to kill it.
Listening to the libs which is most of the media they argue that Trump calling them ‘Fake News’ is him making a law abridging the freedom of the press.
They also say that is how Hitler and Stalin started by calling the press ‘fake news’.
I always thought it was making a law that tells them what they cant say, or what they must say.
No, it says the freedom of the press is not to be abridged. The amendment says nothing about the press choosing to "abridge" itself. That's just an idiotic argument.
The 1st Amendment only applies to quill and ink and the Franklin printing press. No broadcast media and no print media any more recent than lithography are covered.
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