Meanwhile...over at "Nation".................

Too many unknown and pretty useless journalists either abetting or promoting stuff instead of reporting.

The framers never imagined you would hijack a calm forum like this. Fishing. 

Their understanding was not of the means by which the true underlying right being protected by the Amendments you reference are secured but of that fact that in a free society those rights must be secured.

In the one instance it is the most basic human right, the right to self preservation, to life. At the time edged weapons were abundant, many of what was accepted then being now proscribed.

In the second instance, the "press", the press of that time was openly and honestly partisan.....everyone knew it. It was one of the public means of debating ideas. And the Founders quite rightly rested their confidence on the people to sort through it all. And more so, the people's right to sort through it.

The "Big Lie" is that we somewhere along the line developed something called a "journalist", a truly impartial ferreter of fact, trained in putting those facts into print such that the people could sort through it. And amazing of all the amazing, this "journalist" was to be created out of a HUMAN, a regular, normal human, a human possessed as we all are of blind spots and prejudices.


And most amazingly, this "journalist" was to somehow, once he realized he had the power by his writing, by his reporting, by the way he couched a thing, by that and more to be able to sway his fellow citizens towards his view, he was of such metal that he would not do such.

We got played for a long time.....by both the left and the right sides of the "press".......our blinders are off.

While I wander further afield than you do I would note that NPR was always on in my mother's house and is still what is the first button on my truck radio. 

That said.....Bari Weiss at the Free Press needs to be paid attention to as she & her folks are much more what NPR used to be.

My test, for what it is worth, comes down to whether I find myself shaking my head at least now and again at the idiocy of how a thing is reported. Sadly NPR and the NYT are getting close to the status of FOX, which I do not tune in, the difference between them being only which way they blow it.

Add "Reason"........they don't like either Team........

And while Nation is what it is I find value in them in that they will now and again be as upset as Team R or Team D is about a issue.....but often for a different reason.....which causes one to have to think.

You listen to sources that only confirm and affirm your political agenda.