S.T. Patrick – The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press. The Bill of Rights was added when states’ rights advocates and populists worried freedoms would need protecting from an ever-expanding federal government. That freedom would eventually need protecting from the press itself seemed unthinkable. Yet, as The New York Times has shown, the mainstream media keeps burying the last remaining vestiges of its greatest protection with its own shovel.

After running a June 15 story about recent American innovations in cyberwarfare and the way they are applied against Russia’s power grid, President Donald Trump charged that, by printing the story, The New York Times had committed treason. In direct response, the Times confirmed to the president that it had run the story by U.S. officials before printing it. Continue reading →