The founders thought they were protecting us with the media being the watchdog.
What they did not know, nor could foresee was so many communist professors setting up camp at journalism schools.
Our watch dogs are almost exclusively communists and hate the founders and the path the founders set forth for the country.
We have no watch dog and the federal government is making hay out of that fact by usurping more and more power everyday and even the USSC fully occupied by political hacks not constitutional protectors.
I'm not sure I agree with you.
After all, they did create the Second Amendment, which prevents the government from stopping the rest of us from speaking our minds too.