Throughout the history of the United States of America, the Constitution has been repeatedly tested. The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and the press. The founders of the country originally created the first amendment, in part, to enable colonists to speak out against the British. The press in the eighteenth century was accurate and informative with little competition among journalists. But today in the 21st Century, the circumstances are different and …showed first 75 words of 1949 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1949 total…The likelihood of this occurring is very slim. The government, therefore, needs to step in. Special amendments to the Constitution regarding the right to freedom of press and speech need to be put in place in order to avoid such conflicts in the future. While it should not be the government's position to decide what kind of information the media may release, unfortunately no other medium currently exists through which this information can be sifted.