"Constitutional framers established a free press to make sure there would be watchdogs around to keep an eye on the government," begins an Indianapolis Star column by Jeffrey M. McCall, professor of communication at DePauw University. "The press serves a surrogate’s role for citizens who are not in a position to carefully monitor the daily goings-on of their elected government officials. That’s what makes the administration’s current assaults on reporters so disturbing. When the government attacks...
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