Institutional media outlets =/= freedom of press.
Freedom of press literally extends to your individual blogs and corner leaflets. Freedom of press means that each of us can reproduce speech in tangible form. CNN has no more free press rights than any american, it just has greater resources to do so. Critical viewpoints are important for determining the best policies but again, those critical viewpoints can also come from individuals. Hating the bulk of media institutions isnt the same as hating freedom of press.
Half of Republicans apparently haven't gotten the memo.
They are dumb.
It is a commonplace myth that authoritarian types, Left, Right, or simply crazy, are stupid and ill-informed. There were brilliant Nazis and Stalinists. They were not so much stupid as they were evil.
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