If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press, and without it, I'm afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.
Senator McCain emphasizes the importance of a free press in preserving democracy and warns against the dangers of authoritarianism.
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