Why It Matters

“There’s a crisis around the freedom of speech now because many people don’t understand it, they weren’t taught what it means and why it matters. Safeguards for free speech have been essential to almost all social progress in the country, from the civil rights movement to women’s suffrage to the current fights over racial justice and the police.”

—Suzanne Nossel, chief executive of PEN America, quoted in “America Has a Free Speech Problem,” The New York Times, March 18, 2022.

 

 

  

• Editorial Comment: You are also free to think before you speak.

 

 

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Bath au naturel, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”—Tom Stoppard

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
Today's WORD on Journalism