[conservatism_IS_compassion]

thank you Becky Johnson for performing your constitutional duty.

Becky Johnson is a reporter. She doesn't have any "constitutional duty." What she has in the First Amendment is merely a charter of freedom, not a responsibility.

Reporters have "the right to tell the truth." And I have a right to be a financier and investor. I have the right to own the Brooklyn Bridge. Since the fact that reporters have a right to tell the truth proves that in fact they do tell the truth, you should buy my right to the Brooklyn Bridge. I'll sell it cheap.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[NonValueAdded]

Sounds like we are set for some violent agreement here. Freedom of the Press came first for a reason. I think the founding fathers were looking to enable the Thomas Paines rather than simply to pad Ben Franklin's printing income. If you quibble with the word duty then let's try role or part. Would you agree that the press has a role in the greater system of checks and balances of our government of the people, for the people, and by the people?

True, no one is forcing people to be reporters just as they aren't forcing people into high finance. Nevertheless, there is a reasonable expectation that people who choose to be reporters will use their freedom to do good, not to do bad. I think it is worth applauding when a reporter does good. It doesn't happen often enough.