Madison believes it is useless if the government is there but not providing the information for the people to hear. People need to be updated on today's information because they are not people of the old era. Madison sees government as a waste of time that doesn't inform the people at all. They know the government won't provide any valuable information, so they keep it to themselves. Therefore, people will criticize the government for what they are doing. Journalism is what will keep people alive and safe. It is better to have a newspaper without government because journalists will have a say to say what they believe and their opinion to the people. This way, people can provide information or their opinion on what they know instead of keeping it to themselves. Chapters in the novel The Death and Life of American Journalism argue that it is safer and more reliable to provide information to people. McChesney and Nichols argued that Americans should embrace the idea of ​​freedom of the press to prevent crisis within the country