Joseph Holt, CNN; The press isn't the enemy, it's the protector
"Thomas Jefferson, writing in 1792, maintained,
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is
free, no one ever will." The press stands vigilantly as a bulwark
against tyranny and the falsehoods that feed it. Truly democratic rulers
would not want to live in a country without a vibrantly free press --
only a tyrant or a subject content to live under tyrannical rule would.
Far from being the enemy of the people, the press at its best is like a
guardian angel that caringly and capably protects us from harm...
We thank soldiers for their service because they devote themselves to
protecting our freedoms, and we should. But we should also thank the
media for the same reason -- especially when the stakes have never been
higher."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Saturday, August 4, 2018
The press isn't the enemy, it's the protector; CNN, August 3, 2018
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