07-02-2006, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Thank You, Schwarzwald
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The media's job is to report with as much truth as possible. The Times is protected under the First Amendment and even though some people may not like what a newspaper says that doesnt make it right to try and destroy that paper. The government has no right to intimidate or repress the media and any government that does is fascist. If the Times loses the ability to write what it wants then we'll have lost our most valuable right and freedom in America will be dead.
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Thank you for your post, Thomas Jefferson.
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Thomas Jefferson, on the necessity of a free press (1787)
The basis of our government 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.
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