A new effort to help save local news, from WA AG Bob Ferguson | Brier Dudley
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson is working with state legislators on an important proposal to help sustain the state's local news outlets.
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The nation’s founders recognized that access to news and information was crucial to ensuring a robust republic with an engaged citizenry. To ensure that citizens, including those not privileged or affluent, could keep tabs on their government, they took two crucial steps. First, they established the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as part of the Bill of Rights. Among the five freedoms embedded in the First Amendment is the right to free speech and free press.
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