In the words of the Cornell Legal Information Institute, “Despite popular misunderstanding, the right to freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment is not very different from the right to freedom of speech,” and it “does not afford members of the media any special rights or privileges not afforded to citizens in general.” Scorning that fact, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders claims that the Supreme Court ruling in “Citizens United amounts to legalized bribery,” but in reality, it recognizes that all Americans have the same right to free speech as billionaires and foreigners who own massive media corporations like the New York Times and Washington Post. Sanders also claims that cutting “$1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting” is a “step toward authoritarianism” and an attack on “freedom of the press,” when, in fact, freedom of the press has nothing to do with forcing taxpayers to fund selected media outlets.