As partisan and so-called fake news abounds, there are three things that will save the free press in the U.S., and serendipitously, they’re what in these political tumultuous times will save us all: healthy curiosity, skepticism that isn’t cynicism and the belief that what has gotten the nation this far will continue to get us farther.
Or so said presidential historian and Pulitzer-prize winning author Jon Meachman to an audience of more than 600 packed into Rowland Hall’s basketball gym-turned-auditorium Saturday night.
He was in Salt Lake City for the annual McCarthey Family Foundation Lecture Series to speak on past and present challenges facing the free press in the U.