[Political Junkie Too]

It looks to me that many people on FR do not understand that the press, being free, is free to take sides as it wishes. This has been the case from the beginning of the Republic. Learn history people... 

Agree about being free to take sides.

However, in the beginning of the Republic, "the press" meant the printing press, and "freedom of the press" meant the People's right to publish.

The phrase "the press" to refer to newspapers and magazines didn't begin until the 1820s, and to refer to reporters and journalists until the early 1900s.

-PJ

[metesky]

In the beginning of the Republic both Jefferson and Hamilton paid publishers to propagandize for their viewpoints.