Our View: An educated citizenry is the best defense against tyranny

What’s the difference between the press and the media?

Media derives from the Latin, “medium,” which is neither rare nor well done.

What better time to drag out this old joke than Sunshine Week, when newspapers across America remind their readers of the First Amendment?

Like a religious text, the Constitution of the United States, and its amendments, are forever subject to interpretation, thanks mostly to preachers, in the case of the former, and attorneys in the case of the latter.

But the press (that’s us) in particular, has sustained singular insulation from government over-reach, that our...