[gov_bean_ counter]

Through the efforts of the new media we finally have a free press again. Not since the days of multiple newspapers in most cities have we had a free press IMO -- a time before TV.

I have posted before that the new media has taken us back to the "newspaper on every corner". The truth will get out.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Perhaps most Americans cannot appreciate how ordinary a "newspaper on every corner" was.

I am no historian but I bet that there was never any thought by government (perhaps not even by anyone) to make all but one of those newspapers illegal.

Nor would anyone have said, as I heard the author of the book Republic.com say that reading just one of those newspapers was a danger to our democracy.