The citizens of America have to know the value and importance of a free press. A free press will guarantee a free society. A government without newspapers would be a cruel, repressive, and unwelcome power, unable to be checked by any countervailing force, pressure, or influence. Many politicians believed that the press was the best means of protecting the governed, the people, from the exercise of arbitrary power by the governor. The importance of the …showed first 75 words of 269 total…

…showed last 75 words of 269 total…lives. Television shapes the environment in which we live. Even though the press's role and responsibility has changed in the past 200 years or so, its function has remained the same. The press is still the only check outside of government that can check the government. The founders made the press a free and unfettered press so it can keep a watch on the system of checks and balances, and make sure they are working properly.