Mr. Stanis should pick up a Biography or two on Thomas Jefferson and orher founding fathers’ who were adamant about the need for a free, unrestrained press: "The people are the only censors of their governors: and their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard to the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular inter positions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right, and we’re 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 matter. "Thomas Jefferson
Mr. Stanis should pick up a Biography or two on Thomas Jefferson and orher founding fathers’ who were adamant about the need for a free, unrestrained press: "The people are the only censors of their governors: and their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard to the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular inter positions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right, and we’re 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 matter. "Thomas Jefferson