Use It or Lose It

For the consideration of my media, government and political and plain old citizen friends:

More than 300 daily newspapers had committed today to run editorial or opinion pieces standing up for their -- and your, if you're lucky enough to be a U.S. citizen or resident -- First Amendment rights today. Here's what the Philadelphia Inquirer had to say as mounted on the Inquirer and (Philadelphia) Daily News' combined web site www.philly.com.

http://www2.philly.com/philly/opinion/editorials/newspaper-free-press-editorials-donald-trump-philadelphia-20180815.html

Here's a rundown of what some other media organizations were publishing around the nation, as compiled by the Microsoft Network (MSN).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/special-edition-supernumbersmartlist-op-eds-speak-up-for-press-freedom/ar-BBLYRXC?ocid=spartanntp

The Asbury Park Press, a Gannett paper, included this link to a USA Today piece that might prove of interest, too.

https://www.app.com/story/opinion/2018/08/14/what-our-investigative-journalists-expose-isnt-fake-news-column/992760002/

Additionally, here's the press freedom editorial from The Times Herald, the stalwart still covering the county seat where I was born, Norristown, Pennsylvania. It's not (yet) reachable from the home page of the paper's web site. You deserve -- and need -- to read the so-called deep link.

http://www.timesherald.com/opinion/20180815/editorial-president-trump-we-are-not-the-enemy-of-the-people

Please, oh please, use your freedoms for all and only good things and causes, people, but for Heaven's sake don't just roll over and give them up! This is who we are, the symbol we are to scattered nations around the world, the beacon that shows there is more to life than fear and division. Please stand up for your country so it can continue to function as our Founding Fathers intended.