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A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

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.

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.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

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.

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.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.