The Washington Post’s new motto, under its masthead:
“Democracy dies in darkness.”
With Trump’s full-court suppress the press tactics, it’s a timely
warning.
Thomas Jefferson put it bluntly:
"The press [is] the only tocsin of a
nation. [When it] is completely silenced... all means of a general effort [are]
taken away."
For
those who don’t know, tocsin is a warning bell.
When a
leader calls a free press “the enemy of the people,” it’s take to head for the
ramparts of public opinion and head off the dictatorship.
Hitler
hated a free press. Stalin hated a free press. South American dictators hated a
free press. Trump is in some frightening company.
To read the article about the Washington Post
added its tocsin slogan, click on the-washington-posts-dark-new-motto-is-pure-branding-genius
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