From The Boston Globe editorial, one of more than 300 defending the free press that ran on the same day, 8/15. Worth noting that The Daily Free Press, a BU student newspaper, was one of them.
Lies are antithetical to an informed citizenry, responsible for self-governance. The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to speak the truth to the powerful. To label the press “the enemy of the people” is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries.