Pat
Caddell as reported on Fox News: . . . . . But
the overwhelming bias has become very real and very dangerous. We have a
First Amendment for one reason. We have a First Amendment not because the
Founding Fathers liked the press—they hated the press—but they believed, as
[Thomas] Jefferson said, that in order to have a free country, in order to be a
free people, we needed a free press. That was the job—so there was an
implicit bargain in the First Amendment, the press being the only institution,
at that time, which was in our process of which there was no checks and balances.
We designed a constitutional system with many checks and balances. The
one that had no checks and balances was the press, and that was done under an
implicit understanding that, somehow, the press would protect the people from
the government and the power by telling—somehow allowing—people to have the
truth. That is being abrogated as we speak, and has been for some
time. It is now creating the danger that I spoke to . . . .
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