The opportunity to gain an education in the United States is increasing, which means that more people are gaining better intelligence. Within the early century of our country the gap between the un-educated and the educated was not as close as it is now. Today’s environment of allows for knowledge to be more accessible, such as free library check out and the mass of information that is distributed throughout the internet. Although there was a larger gap in the educational system in the past, people still had the same passions to speak out against the political systems as they do today. The First Amendment, freedom of the press, speech, expression, and religion, allows for our society to convey or feelings thoroughly.
Writer A.J. Liebling once stated that freedom of the press belonged only to those who owned one. Although this statement could have once been true in America’s past, the increase in education allows for better judgment in what people print, and in today’s society, post. With newspaper’s typically being represented as a form of press, online blogs can be a form of press too. To own an online blog or a newspaper there is no license required which means that owning one is available to anybody who can read or write.
Not having a license to start a newspaper gives opportunity for more independent outlets to own a press and a newspaper. School newspapers are a form of independent press that can exist within high school and college .
Online blogs can too be a form of independent press. The only difference between the both is that school newspapers are mostly created by more that one person and blogs are only created by one and don’t require a press. I disagree with A.J. Liebling’s statement that freedom of the press only belongs to those who owned one because of the influence blogs have to distribute the news as a form of press.