A Free Press Means Free From Government Control

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American Spectator:

A Free Press Means Free From Government Control
By L. Brent Bozell III & Dan Gainor on 10.4.10 @ 6:08AM

In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, President Obama admits that media bias is a problem. "The golden age of an objective press was a pretty narrow span of time in our history."

Obama was addressing a question about Fox News, but it's the rest of the old media that are the problem. And that problem begins even before journalists get out of school. Since so many in the media have supported the president, perhaps they will heed his complaint and learn from it.

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger's July 14 commentary in the Wall Street Journal is a classic example of how bad things have gotten in journalism. Bollinger actually confused freedom of the press with freedom to oppress. The man who heads up a college with one of the most well-known journalism schools actually argued against freedom of the press.