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For our part, this newspaper will fight for progress where progress means wise change and attractive controlled growth. It will resist change where ‘‘growth” is no more than a developer’s magic word for . destruction of our land, water and air resources.
As we have harshly learned in recent years, with criminal deception of the people in the nation’s highest office, our liberty often depends on freedom of the press. This newspaper here will expose injustice or corruption; it will battle political demagogues; it will insure the right to each political faction to be heard, but will itself belong to no party. On all issues, it will defend individual rights and will support existing laws while advocating better ones. This newspaper will also be a conscience to those in public office. We will not seek controversy, nor will we avoid it. Freedom of the press is the bulwark of civil and religious liberty and one of the most precious legacies left us in this troubled world. A newspaper consists of about the same number of words each week, whether or not there k any big news in it. Words can be razors, or they can be idle, or they can be as the warmth of a summer’s morning. They will in this newspaper reflect our times in Rappahannock County. (Mr. Arundel became President and Publisher of The kappahannock News on May 1,1977)
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