Recently there have been multiple attacks on our nation's press. Such attacks are dangerous and misguided.
President John F. Kennedy, in a 1962 speech to three TV interviewers, said: "I think the press is invaluable even though ... it is never pleasant to be reading things that are not agreeable news. But I would say that it is an invaluable arm of the presidency. There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. ... Even though we never like it and even though we wish they didn't write it and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do our job at all in a free society without a very, very active press."
It's no wonder its freedom is enshrined in the very first amendment to the Constitution. No matter our political leanings, a free and active press is good for all of us.
Thomas Bunch
Duluth
