Posted BY: Tanya Berlaga
The framers of the Constitution designated the press as a special institution designed to report to the people on the actions of the government.
Here is what the First Continental Congress in 1774 wrote:
The last right we shall mention regards the freedom of the press. The importance of this consists, besides the advancement of truth, science, morality, and arts in general, in its diffusion of liberal sentiments on the administration of Government, its ready communication of thoughts between subjects, and its consequential promotion of union among them, whereby oppressive officers are shamed or intimidated into more honorable and just modes of conducting affairs.
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