Freedom of the press is vital to the working of any democracy.  That does not mean that the press has to be completely honest, or un-biased, or without "mis-information" (a dangerous term in itself).  However, it does mean that a full range of press opinions needs to be presented to the public.  This essay by Andrew Sullivan (https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/when-all-the-media-narratives-collapse-650 ), does an excellent job of presenting the many errors by the main stream media (MSM).  And the issues isn't that the press makes errors, it's that the errors are far too consistently in only one direction.  (The suppression of the Hunter Biden computer before the election is one of the more egregious examples.)  That is a danger to the concept of a free press - and ultimately an danger to the nation.

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