We hope you enjoy the following selection of quotations about the First Amendment:

&8220;Journalism is like making beer &8230; Without formal training and using cheap equipment, almost anyone can do it.&8221;

&8212; Glenn Reynolds, law professor, University of Tennessee, 2006

&8220;A newsroom is a place that values sharp tongues and sharper elbows.&8221;

&8212; Jeffrey Dvorkin, former ombudsman, National Public Radio, 2005

&8220;PR plays much better in a world that lacks trust.&8221;

&8212; Richard Edelman, public

relations executive, 2006

&8220;Elected officials have no constitutional right to conduct governmental affairs behind closed doors. Their duty is to inform the electorate, not hide from it.&8221;

&8212; Harold Herd, former Kansas Supreme Court justice, 1982

&8220;On many campuses &8230; politically correct &8216;speech codes&8217; &8212; forbidding speech that might offend one&8217;s race, sexual orientation, religion, et al. &8212; have been folded into codes of conduct under the continuing assumption by some students and administrators that there is a constitutional right not to be offended.&8221;

&8212; Nat Hentoff, journalist,

author, 2006

&8220;Media myths aren&8217;t harmless. They can scare people, reinforce their biases and become tools of manipulation. At their worst, they can become government policy.&8221;

&8212; Rene Denfield, freelance journalist, 2002

&8220;&8216;Desecration&8217; of the flag is in the mind of the beholder.&8221;

&8212; Robert Corn-Revere, First Amendment attorney, author, 2006

&8220;I have long been persuaded that the news media collectively will be sent to hell not for our sins of commission, but our sins of omission. The real scandal in the media is not bias, it is laziness.&8221;

&8212; Molly Ivins, syndicated columnist, 2005

&8220;No robust democracy insulates its citizens from views that they might find novel or even inflammatory.&8221;

&8212; Sandra Day O&8217;Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court justice, 2004