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.
President Joe Biden's frustration with misinformation is legitimate. But the only real solution is to ensure reliable news remains available, by sustaining America's local, independent...
The only way that lies can flourish as they now do is because the press has been diminished in both scale and stature. Lies advance...
A daily newspaper is being resurrected in Spokane, digitally. It may be a harbinger for other cities as newspapers look for new ways to reach...
When it comes to Facebook, the good and the bad are indivisible. As Mark Zuckerberg likes to brag, it's all about connecting people, and, up...
Apple Daily, which has ceased publication, continued to criticize China even after the implementation of the national-security law and became the last bastion representing the...
Twenty-first century American media has some terrible flaws, no doubt. It too often chases clicks and gossip over substance and shamefully gives a platform to...
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