Free expression

To the editor:

I compliment Eric Meyer’s editorial (“‘Fake’ news and real politicking”) April 8. His command of the English language is commendable as he put the ideals of professional journalism in terms a middle school student can plainly understand.

There are those among us, both on the right and the left, who remain impervious to fact, who have little impulse to learn.

I’ve witnessed this in classrooms where I taught university and college American history for 25 years.

The human characteristics of doubt and curiosity are enhanced by publications like the Record. The First Amendment is one reason I subscribe and occasionally contribute my opinion to three newspapers, including yours.

To quote from George Orwell’s 1945 “Freedom of the Press.” “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

Carlos Valle
Laredo, Texas