“I deplore ... the putrid state into which our newspapers

Posted on: February 3, 2025 at 20:37:30 CT

have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them,” Thomas Jefferson, 1814. And in 1787 he wrote "that “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.”

George Washington framed the issue of free expression in almost apocalyptic terms: “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

Trump Admin has taken out long-standing media stalwarts like NBC and PBS/NPR from the Pentagon and replacing them with Breitbart, et al. Law suits against good media will spike soon. NPR and Corp for Public Broadcasting gets a tiny fraction of its funding from the tax payer. They get majority of funding from local and national underwriters. Trump team and GOP will be going after THAT section of support. THIS is what Orban did in Hungary. THIS is what Orban visited with Trump about in FL. Kiss your country goodbye you ignorant fools. Greatest force in the world for 80 years will soon be gone.