Dear Editor,
The Dispatch has earned the Golden Quill Award for its ongoing
support of the right of the people to know about our government’s
action concerning the people’s business.
Dear Editor,
The Dispatch has earned the Golden Quill Award for its ongoing support of the right of the people to know about our government’s action concerning the people’s business.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1787: “I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep them to the true principles of the institution. … The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs through the channel of the public papers. … The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and 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.”
Joseph P. Thompson, Gilroy
