The Framers of our Constitution enshrined freedom of the press in the very first Amendment, up at the top of the Bill of Rights, not because they were great fans of journalists – like many politicians, then and now, they were not – but rather because they knew, as Thomas Jefferson put it, that, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free… it expects what never was and never will be.” Dan Rather 6/7/08
Jon Stewart shows how FOX News starts a story as an opinion and then POOF it becomes news
And of course we need Jon Stewart to highlight this. Video is here
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