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when you enter the voting booth on November 8.
Democracy depends on an informed electorate. The newspaper is a product of the efforts of a group of professionals, in printing, in advertising, in writing, and in the other separate skills that they devote in their dedication to getting that information to you. Without newspapers, democracy wouldn’t work.
Thomas Jefferson said well in 1787 what we at the Rappahannock News continue to believe and what we take seriously as we strive to be worthy of your trust:
“The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
But then he added something that speaks to your responsibility during National Newspaper Week: “I should mean that every man should receive those papers, and be capable of reading them.”
Celebrate National Newspaper Week by promising to really read the paper, to make a concerted effort to understand civic current events—and to support the efforts of our local school system to equip the next generation to be “capable of reading them.”
Newspaper Week is about a lot more than newspapers. It is about the very system of democracy.
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