PA Cloud 
There is a reason the very first amendment to the U. S. Constitution in 1791 dealt with issues such as freedom of speech, the press, religion, the right of peaceful assembly and the right to redress grievances via government petition.
The founding fathers viewed those freedoms and rights as critical to a functioning democracy. Without them a government could exercise almost total control over its people.
Last week the FBI officially warned news organizations that it has received “credible information” that a splinter group of the Islamic State has been ordered to kidnap journalists in the Mideast and take them to Syria.
I am not surprised by this news. It is, after all, a well-known tactic of Islamist terrorists to kidnap and murder journalists.
Beyond the obvious political reasons for kidnapping and murdering journalists is another less apparent motive.