And yet nearly half the population feels entitled to control everything but themselves. We are a deeply stupid nation.
Made it to the halfway-ish point on the suckers. Still not focussed, still pissed enough to light fires. Better find a book and a bowl before I bleed. Again.
The First Amendment doesn’t protect industries, doesn’t enshrine the right to sell cars or manufacture pharmaceuticals or operate airlines. It protects religion, speech, press, and petition. The press is mentioned not because newspapers were profitable, but because being an informed citizen is a prerequisite for self-governance. So the press is the only private enterprise explicitly named in the Constitution, not as a commercial interest to be protected, but more as a democratic function to be preserved. And that distinction is important.
~Carolina Abbott Galvao, “John Cusack Wants to Talk About Paywalls“, Columbia Journalism Review., 7 January 2026.