Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Quote of the Day: a Free Press
Joseph Pulitzer: "Our republic and its press will rise and fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery."
Now go read NYT v. Sullivan (1964). More on that case here, about halfway down the page.
Now go read NYT v. Sullivan (1964). More on that case here, about halfway down the page.
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free press,
free speech,
Joseph Pulitzer
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