Healthy Constitution?

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How We Know What We Know

“Americans still support the idea of a free press as a watchdog on government, and turn to traditional news sources on major news stories despite skepticism about bias in the news media . . . . Television was the first source for major news stories for about half of all responding (49%), followed by the Internet at 15%, radio at 13% and newspapers at 10%—which places traditional news media (TV, radio and newspapers) as the first source for 72% of Americans. Twitter, e-mails and social-networking sites each were named by 1% of those responding. Similarly, for 48% of Americans TV is the primary source for followup reports on those news stories, followed by the Internet at 29% and newspapers at 9%.”

—Freedom Forum 13th State of the First Amendment survey,
released for National Constitution Day (9/17/09)

Editor’s Note: My gramma always said she had a healthy Constitution. Me, not as much....

Meanwhile, Uncle Jay Explains the News. This week’s word: Civility?

And Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me!



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