"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
In the picture there is a building aka democracy and it is being held up with pillars. The pillars are newspapers and in the caption it says infrastructure. According to the dictionary infrastructure is the basic physical systems of a business or nation. I interpret it as saying that for democracy to reign we must have the press.
This connects to the first amendment by saying he right to be informed through the news. Over the years the press has become an important tool for Americans. In colonial times people spread news all over the states. If the people aren’t inform it is almost impossible to pick the best leader for their country.
I believe the press is important but in recent years the newspaper and television news haven’t become the got to source that they were in earlier years. Most people go to the internet if they wanted up to date news. No matter what kind of new source you use for there to be a democracy the people need the press. The press is the way we find out about issues and problems that happened millions of miles from where we are. The people need to know about the issues so they could vote for someone to fix them. If they are clueless to the problems the nation is facing how can they pick the right leader to fix them?
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