I'll just say that free press is a main requirement of a modern society.

We need to know more, not less, and we can judge who is saying something right, and who's just inventing their own news.

I would also agree that we as a society don't have enough educated people, and nobody reads anything important, not even in the Arabic newspapers (skim the news, read the comics, have a look at the stock market trends, and then read the sports section).