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As the nation observes National Newspaper Week, October 16 to 23. it is fitting to reflect on the protection afforded Americans by a free press. “A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society, wrote syndicated columnist Walter Lippman in 1965. The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, written soon after the document itself was adopted, provides that “Congress shall make no law. . .abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” That very first amendment shows the priority that the founding fathers gave freedom of the press.
One of the most vocal supporters of a free press, Thomas Jefferson, in his “Writings” stated that “No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free none ever will.”
The Rappahannock News and other papers in America are fighting to maintain freedom to seek, to ask, to understand, to know what is occurring in and out of government. At times, it’s a thankless job. We make as many enemies as friends by our effort, particularly among local government officials. But we have no choice except to continue.
On all levels of government, there is an effort being made to abridge the freedom that surmounts all of the freedoms we enjoy today. We are sometimes regarded as too militant in
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