[First_Salute]

In the United States of America, the people have both an individual right to free press, as well as an organized right to free press --- the First Amendment affirming the role of the free press: to protect the people from government.

That is the number one responsibility of a free press, and that is why we call it a "free press," that is, it is free from government coercion, to go about the business of exposing government so that government's abuses are swiftly known and dealt with by the people.

[jodorowsky]

People have that right everywhere and for exactly the same reasons, but many Canadians don't understand how important it is: or worse, have a false idea of it, where corporations are a bigger threat to freedom than the lifegiving State.

[Vojvodina]

What's written in the Constitution and what's going on in reality are two different worlds, my friend.

The media in the US -- all privately owned and supposedly free -- are the Government's lapdog and are especially good at lying to / misinforming the American people when it comes to the United States' foreign affairs.

Nominal democracy at home, tyranny abroad.