Anonymous
Anonymous
02/06/2026 21:36
Subject: Freedom of the Press
Wild times.
Peggy Noonan nails it in the Wall Street Journal -free article here:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-lament-for-the-washington-post-a5509d63?st=wAU7me&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
One part that spoke to me -
I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information—a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information.
You have to think of it as part of your country’s survival system. Maybe the government will or won’t tell you the truth about what’s going on, maybe the Pentagon will or won’t, but if you know you’ve got this fabulous island of broken toys, professional journalists working for a reputable news organization, you’ve got a real chance of learning what’s true.
Peggy Noonan nails it in the Wall Street Journal -free article here:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-lament-for-the-washington-post-a5509d63?st=wAU7me&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
One part that spoke to me -
I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information—a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information.
You have to think of it as part of your country’s survival system. Maybe the government will or won’t tell you the truth about what’s going on, maybe the Pentagon will or won’t, but if you know you’ve got this fabulous island of broken toys, professional journalists working for a reputable news organization, you’ve got a real chance of learning what’s true.