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In Our Opinion: The Free Press Is Not The Enemy Of The People

August 16, 2018 Speak Out!

“Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.”

Thomas Jefferson wrote those words in a letter to John Jay in 1786. Even though Jefferson had often been pilloried in the press while he was president, he always maintained his belief that a free press was vital to the success of the fledgling republic.

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