A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A free press needs to be a respected press.
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.
The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
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.
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.
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
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.
The press is the enemy.
A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.