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It is appropriate each year during National Newspaper Week to reflect on the important information and services newspapers provide in helping us plan our daily lives; inform us of important national, international and local events; advise, challenge, instruct and, indeed, entertain us.
Americans have often grown so accustomed to those services that they fail to understand that the daily newspaper they hold in their hands is an indispensable instrument of democracy, designed to make possible the exercise of our Constitutional freedoms.
Through diversity of news, opinion, advertisement, advice, criticism and analysis, our daily and weekly newspapers offer a freedom basic to our concept of a free society—freedom of choice. We are allowed to weigh facts; examine arguments; "compare and value" opposing positions on issues vital to public debate or to the purchase of a suit of clothing.
The role of the free press, as envisioned by our founding fathers, was to protea the public's right to know, to serve the reader as their surrogate, to help
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