Just The Facts, Please

The White House Correspondents' Dinner
was held last weekend.

No comedians this year.

Instead,  
the featured guest
was acclaimed
 historian
Ron Chernow.

He offered
valuable insights
into the
relationship
between the
White House
and the
Press
throughout
our nation's history.

Chernow's speech
celebrated the important role
that journalists play in our democracy.

He quoted Thomas Jefferson,
who famously wrote, 
"Were it left to me to decide whether
we should have a government
without newspapers,
or newspapers
without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment
to prefer the latter."

Freedom of the press
is enshrined in our Bill of Rights.

We depend on a
free press to bring us
the facts
so that we can make
informed decisions.

And,
as Chernow says,
we need
the facts
in order to have
honest
disagreements.

Let's show our
gratitude
to the journalists
across our country
who work tirelessly to
bring us
the facts.

And let's try to
ground our
purple conversations
in these facts
rather than 
bombastic rhetoric.