My Gosh.

Leonard Pitts Jr. has opened my eyes.
He says newspapers are going extinct.
Impossible, you say, for newspapers to go extinct. Only panda bears and do-do birds do that. How can something that isn't alive die out?
Newspapers ARE alive. They tell the stories that no one sees, the stories that people wouldn't just find out on their own. And they reveal. Newspapers are a way of publicity, but they also bring a sense of accountability. People think twice before they do something they wouldn't want the entire community to read about the next morning.
Newspapers are important, useful, and absolutely necessary. Support them. READ them. And for goodness' sake, appreciate them.

Along those same lines,
Be careful with freedom of the press. Don't abuse it. Don't degrade it to an excuse to be crude or disrespectful. Don't rely on publicity or anonymity, for that matter. Freedom of the press, like all other freedoms, is an undeniable right, but mostly, it's a privelege.