[Opinion] Journalist town hall sounds alarm on freedom of the press

Journalist town hall sounds alarm on freedom of the press

Former Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black once wrote in an opinion on the 1971 case New York Times Co. v. United States:  “In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government. The…