The San Francisco Chronicle is about to go under. The Rocky Mountain News publishes its last edition on tomorrow. Newspapers across America are going under or teetering on the brink. Our Founding Fathers thought that a free press was essential to our freedoms. Totalitarian states suppress their press with threats and violence; we American suppress our press by letting it go out of business. The effect will be the same: we will know less and less about what our government is doing to us and doing to other people in our name.
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