Free Press roundup: Why and why not some pay for news | Brier Dudley | Save the free press
A group of 68 people were given a free, three-week newspaper subscription and then asked whether they would pay for one.
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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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