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To: EQAndyBuzz

The Constitution guarantees a free press. We do not have a free press by any stretch of the imagination.

“Free press” means more than just an individual or group’s right to speak its mind. It means that the press must not be suborned by the state and its allies into a propaganda arm of the government and its cronies. We don’t have a press we have a Goebbels style Ministry of Propaganda.

President Trump’s first act should be to drop a legislative JDAM on that particular government agency.


16 posted on 10/10/2016 6:00:14 PM PDT by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: Mad_as_heck

“The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.” - Jefferson

Once the press stops representing the people and starts to represent the government do we as a people need to correct that.


18 posted on 10/10/2016 6:06:03 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Lester Holt — Clinton House Boy.)
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