Tocqueville on the ‘Liberty of the Press’ - I was not only the Founders

Posted: Jan 21st, 2018 - 11:45 am In Reply to: The MSM/press are digging their own grave. The founders - anticipated fake news.

who understood the trade-offs between a free press and misleading news. Alexis de Tocqueville, the famed French observer of American life, wrote about the freedom of the press in his 1835 book “Democracy in America.”

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        Tocqueville on the ‘Liberty of the Press’ - I was not only the Founders
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