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What you are holding is unique and powerful, because the news, information, facts, opinions, advice, public notices, advertisements, guides and illustrations in your hands help you make your own individual decisions on how to conduct your life—safely, successfully, more fulfilling.
What you hold in your hands is unique because this newspaper is a symbol of a distinctly American concept, the idea of a free press—not an end in itself, but a means to maintain our free society through the free flow of information.
What you hold in your hands is your ability to disagree—expressed in your freedom to express your ideas in our letters column in a uniquely American dialog.
As we observe National Newspaper Week, think of those who bring you what you hold in your hands: the reporters, editors, circulation staffs, advertising people, production staff members, who made sure this powerful expression of America comes to you regularly, and is so much a part of your life that too often we take it for granted.
What you hold in your hands is freedom.
Webster Hawkins
President
National Newspaper Association
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