We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.
I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
A free press needs to be a respected press.
A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.