Conservative media’s job today: Holding the powerful to account

Published November 30, 2016 2:43am ET



The First Amendment had a rough go of things during this year’s general election, with both parties’ nominees taking aim at it. But it has a new army of fierce defenders: President-elect Trump’s proposal of jail time or worse for flag burners galvanized the Left and the media against trimming the First Amendment.

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