Freedom of the press is a right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the U.S. constitution. This allows anyone to state or print what they believe freely with out the need to worry about possible consequences. The two articles I read were by Carl Jensen; Censorship Threatens Freedom of the Press and William Powers; Censorship Does Not Threaten Freedom of the Press. Jensen's main idea was that we must support a free press. He declared, "It is the media's responsibility...to explore, compile, and present information that people should be aware of in a way that will attract their attention and be relevant to their everyday lives." One of his biggest accomplishments during his career was his creation a national research project called Project Censored. This was established to explore and advertise the extent of news censorship in our society by exposing the media's failure to cover important news issues. Powers talks about the Censorship Fantasy. People feel that there is a separate entire world out there that is not being revealed to them. Having been the former media critic for the New Republic magazine, he discusses in detail about how he found it humorous and he was proud that this magazine had been censored. Both men have different opinions about censorship in the press and in each of their articles they've shared their views.
             The first article I read was by Carl Jenson, entitled, Censorship Threatens Freedom of the Press. Jenson's idea was clearly to expose to the public that, "The media-generated myth of the press as an aggressive, unbiased, honest watchdog of society, is just that-a myth." He believed that it is the press and newspapers obligation to inform the public of all events occurring. Nothing should be left out and nothing should be hidden. We all have a right to know what's going on in our world and our press is being paid to do so and has no right to withhol...