Commentary
Inside the First Amendment
By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director
When a North Carolina weekly newspaper asked for and was given a $50,000 business loan by town aldermen in mid-May, no quotation from free-press defenders and the nation’s founders like Madison and Jefferson that immediately came to mind.
Rather, it was a thought sometimes expressed by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, often a critic of the press: “With the shekels come…
