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    The Free Press: It's Kind Of A Big Deal

    Learn more about how you can protect the freedom of the press and the rights of journalists everywhere at IAM1A.com!

    This is the First Amendment of the United States Constitution

    America wouldn’t exist if all the guys with printing presses hadn’t told the Brits to shove off.

    In places without press freedom, things tend to go downhill pretty quickly.

    The free press has exposed a lot of corruption here in America

    A free press means normal citizens like you and me can have a voice

    But the free press is not safe even in America

    It gets worse, there’s this bill in the Senate right now that basically lets the Department of Justice decide who IS and ISN'T a journalist

    If you haven’t worked as a professional journalist recently or aren’t a journalism student, no shield law for you.

    Matt Drudge put it well

    So let’s tell all these Senators who think they know better that they can’t take our freedom!

    Learn more about how you can protect the freedom of the press and the rights of journalists everywhere at IAM1A.com!

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    I am the first amendment, and so are you!