The Free Press: How a War on Truth Threatens Democracy with Wesley Lowery

'It’s no coincidence, says Wesley Lowery, that freedom of the press was one of the first things that the U.S. founders enshrined in the Constitution. It was people of that time’s ability to report on and openly discuss their situation that sparked the revolution. It became clear then that a free press is the ultimate safeguard for democracy. “We love, as a culture, to attack messengers when the message is something that makes us feel uncomfortable,” says journalist  Lowery, whose latest book is They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.'-- +Big Think