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system.
Well, the system works. We shouldn't overlook the fact that the press does perform a major
service. I mean, journalists are overwhelmingly honest, courageous. Describe what they see,
you can trust what they say. Just speaking for myself, the first thing I do every morning is read
The New York Times, knowing the flaws of the company, once we understand, we can
compensate for the way the news is framed for what's chosen and what isn't chosen, we can fill
in the gaps. We can correct for the ways in which things are modified and presented. But that is
the main that and others like it are the main source of information.
However, the idea that the media should be truly under the public control, independent, free, the
way the founders interpreted the First Amendment, that's the way they interpreted it, the First
Amendment wasn't just what are called negative rights, the government can't interfere with the
press. The First Amendment was understood by the framers as conferring positive rights, the
government should actively take action to ensure that there is a free and independent press.
Well, that's again, why the post offices in the Constitution is compared to today when the
government is trying to savagely punish and viciously prosecute someone who is carrying out
that mission, and it tells you something about, what we have allowed to happen to our own
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