Letter: 1st Amendment only way to truth

Without the First Amendment, the ability to learn the truth would be all but impossible. As an incipient journalist in Chicago, the late, great Arnold Dornfeld of the Chicago City News Bureau, once, twice, three times and more said, "Chum, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then bring me the duck."

During a short-lived but enlightening reporting and writing career, which included my take on several events in Vietnam, it was because of what Dornie taught me that the stories somehow found their way to the bureau chief of UPI in Chicago.

I'd like to think what I wrote and described was honest and truthful. No other profession is investigated, checked for accuracy or demonized more than journalism.

S.C. Rep. Mike Pitts, it's not funny. What's your closet look like?

Bill Connor

This story was originally published January 29, 2016 at 9:56 PM with the headline "Letter: 1st Amendment only way to truth."