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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> sandwichh </div>');
document.write('digalittldper,    And it will not change in Nov I am afraid. Just than one will be much more in your pocket and personal life than the other. <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> unidentified </div>');
document.write('Speaking of the press... (I posted this else where, but I thought ya\'ll might find it interesting)    I think you all might gain some insight into the type of reporting our media is providing. While I know this isn\'t a forum on Newscenter 25... <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> Offthereservation </div>');
document.write('Sailor I might agree if the "biased" press were really one big monolithic entity, but the good thing is that it\'s not anymore.  Think about where we\'ve come in the last 20-30 years, from 3 TV news networks (each of which really spouted the same line)... <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> CG23Sailor </div>');
document.write('Mike wrote: "I considered the freedom of the press to be the unofficial fourth branch of government.....It should be in the checks and balances equation."    Mike, you are not going to like this but I will say it anyway.....    I agree with you.... <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> swbones </div>');
document.write('Security is nonexistent without freedom.  The Founding Fathers were not going to ratify the Constitution unless the bill of rights was added.   These guys knew that Government was and still is inherently evil.    The “Free Press” does not provide you... <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> sandwichh </div>');
document.write('A free press is totally needed. But it also must be an accountable press. There is a difference between a professional, unbiased journalist and a commentator. Too many times today a commentator is presented as a and believed to be a professional,... <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> Offthereservation </div>');
document.write('That\'s my point: the states were distrustful of a federal government at the time the constitution was adopted and the bill of rights was added as an additional check on its power, not the power of the states.  After the Civil War, the protections of... <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> bighorn </div>');
document.write('You better go back to the history books. Just the oposite of what you believe is true. Only after the Civil War did the federal government gained control over the states.  <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> Offthereservation </div>');
document.write('I think the bill of rights was added as a check on the powers of the then-new federal government; only after the civil war were they applied to the states, under the 14th Amendment.      Regardless, a free press is a cornerstone in the system of checks... <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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document.write('<div class="comment_by"> bighorn </div>');
document.write('The "Bill of Rights", or the first ten amendments were originally written to prevent the 13 new states from infringing on those particular rights and/or procedures.     With the judicial system constant review and remarks during the next 200 years has... <a href="http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/ViewPost/27841">read more</a></div>');
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