The Constitution guarantees the freedom of the press…
Beyond the press, balancing civil liberties and human rights for everyone was clearly on the minds of our founders.
They put their ideas about what America could become in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
From what they wrote, they simply had to know they were leaving slavery and inequality for others to deal with.
They established values they thought would prevent future autocrats from destroying their grand experiment.
And there also was no way they could ever have anticipated the Internet, television, and social media.
We therefore recently have become overwhelmed by an unanticipated misinformation environment.
As a result, journalists must now leave behind traditional issues reporting practices… and focus only on finding and reporting truth and facts. America always has been a work in progress, and now journalists have a new role to play.
Larry D. Lauer 
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