Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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As we move closer and closer to the next election, and continue to debate the role of the media in American politics, we might want to stop for a moment and reflect on just how fragile our free-expression rights can be. In mid-July 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, which made it a crime to publish false, malicious, or scandalous writing about the government. Despite the First Amendment, which guaranteed a free press and free speech, despite all of the talk about freedom from tyranny, despite all of the newspapers springing up, with the...
