“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost” -Thomas Jefferson, 1786
Original URL: https://merylnass.substack.com/p/our-liberty-depends-on-the-freedom“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” –...
“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1787
“Printing presses shall be subject to no other restraint than liableness to legal prosecution for false facts printed and published.” -Thomas Jefferson: Draft of Virginia Constitution, 1783.
But we got a world of propaganda instead. What happens now?
Talk about closing the barn door after the horse got out…
