Adversial+but+Necessary

"The Value of a vigorous adversarial press is hard to argue against when one sees the efforts that dictators around the globe go to in order to silence dissenting views"

-"Without high-quality journalism, American democracy would be HUGELY diminished"
 * What journalists do is "essential to democracy"


 * Without a good reliable and credible source of news, we are instead replaced with, "an anarchy of half-truths, misinformation and propoganda"


 * "When most things taken on faith come under close scrutiny, uncomfortable facts usually emerge that can shake faith"


 * Despite our problems with "traditional, objective" journalism we must realize that it is key to democracy

__Censors: Then and Now __


 * //Dubarry was a Lady-// was a popular hit on Broadway with the featured cast of Betty Grable, Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr. (1939). It was a "ribald musical about a hatcheck attendant who mistakenly takes a Micky Finn and wakes up thinking he is King Louis XV of France.


 * It was so popular MGM decided to make it into a movie...not without, of course, going through a rigorous test to see if it was wholesome and appropriate enough for American audiences

__**//Flash forward to today...//**__
 * We have gone from a society that scoffed at words such as jerk and MILDLY sexual double entendrees to having pornography just a click or phone call away.


 * "Words that were long forbidden are now routinely on television and even creeping into newspapers"
 * "Whether you regard our national tolerance for such things as a triumph for free speech or a victory for course vulagarity, it represents a sea of change in our national culture."