The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
THINK: What it would be like to live in a country where the government does not guarantee its citizens a “free press?” To what types of news stories or articles would they be denied access?
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Skim today’s issue of The New York Times. http://eedition.nytimes.com/newsstand/main Which articles or images would probably not be published in a country without a law guaranteeing freedom of the press? Record your ideas on this worksheet. You can type in the fields and save the sheet to your H drive. Then, when you have completed the sheet, save it again, print it, and give the hard copy to me. If you finish early, continue researching your debate topic.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/NIE/CensorThePress_Student.pdf
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