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In today’s information age, news is spread at lighting speed. News, gossip, sports scores, data can be reached from just about anywhere. Do we have access to too much information? Well the right to be informed in engraved in the constitution under the first amendment. This smorgasbord of news ensures that the people know details about the professional and sometimes even personal lives of elected and selected officials. When the conviction in the Supreme Court’s Gideon v. Wainwright was reversed, news spread across the country and those who were convicted without given the right to legal counsel could petition to have their cases retried as well. The draw back to the information age is the accuracy and usefulness of the information that
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