[Flavius]

good thing news media is backing the free speach

this is an cricket

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

good thing news media is backing the free speech

Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . .

. . . but then, journalism is too busy promoting the imposture that it is the embodiment of "the press" - which makes as much sense, and no more, as if somebody who talks a lot were to proclaim himself the embodiment of "speech" - to trifle about abridgment of somebody else's freedom of expression.

The intent of the First Amendment is clear: the government is not to censor anyone without cause (e.g., national security) and certainly not to censor political opposition. But with the advent of the AP newswire, newspapers and then all of journalism became homogenized into a collection of self-promoting fronts for socialism.