Liberty University attacks freedom of the press
“Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
This section of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is pretty cut and dry, at least on the surface. Essentially, citizens have the right to speak freely and the press cannot be censored, as it is in countries like North Korea or Iran.
In today’s America, there’s still debate over this right. President Donald Trump frequently attacks the press and, in turn, attacks our democracy.
Last week, Liberty University (LU), the world’s largest evangelical Christian university, imposed a similar attack on freedom of the press. Bruce Kirk, the Dean of Liberty’s School of Communication and Digital Content, restructured the entire student newspaper, firing its Editor-In-Chief and forcing the students to write in a slanted way.