Every morning I go out to the driveway, pickup my freshly delivered paper copy of the New York Times, and read the news. One must imagine my surprise in turning to the Opinion pages, and seeing my old local paper, The Hays Free Press, quoted as part of mosaic of editorials around the nation condemning Donald Trump’s attacks on and demonization of the press.
I went to the Hays Free Press website and read “We Are The People” and when I finished reading I signed up for another newspaper home delivery.
I’m probably not the type of person one would think of if one pictured someone with newspapers coming to their house every day. I’m 24, I haven’t graduated college (though I want to), and I work at a grocery store. But I believe that a robust and free press is crucial to the operation of a democracy.
