Considering the current state of mainstream media, it can sometimes be hard to believe that the role of press should be to, as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote in part in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) “…serve the governed, not the governors.”
Unfortunately for those alive and kicking in 2023 it has become pretty obvious that the power players in the MSM—The New York Times, CNN, Fox News and many more—have all but abandoned that idea.
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