A recent survey of 112,003 high school students conducted by the Knight Foundation found that 36% believe newspapers should get "government approval" of stories before publishing. 51% say they should be able to publish freely; 13% had no opinion. When asked whether the press enjoys "too much freedom," not enough or about right amount, 32% say "too much," and 37% say it has the right amount, with 10% saying it has too little.
This finding, during a time when the government is jailing reporters more frequently and for longer periods, and giant corporations are consolidating their strangle hold on the printed news media leaves Dog scratching his head. Our time is coming.
“Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dog Out
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