With all the talk of the supposed attack on free press, it might be instructive to revisit a time when the free press was really under attack. Perhaps this teachable moment might also inform a certain prestigious journalism school that op-ed columnists are the descendants of those Colonial pamphleteers that gave us the free press J-Schools so cherish. Want to know what I’m talking about? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Today’s Columnists Find Their Roots in Revolutionary War Era Pamphleteers” and find out.
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