(Editor’s Note: The following is the text of Mr. Small’s speech upon being presented the 2019 Carter Bradley First Amendment Award by the Oklahoma Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Jounalists on Saturday, May 18, during the annual SPJOK Awards Banquet at the Reed Conference Center in Midwest City.)

I would like to sincerely thank the SPJ Board of Directors for this honor. It means a great deal to me, for reasons that I will try to explain in just a moment, but first a few more “...


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