How many times does the NYT have to post classified national security information before something is done? |
it's a good thing the men who founded this country are spared your contempt for and hatred of the freedom they treasured more than even their own lives.
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and
were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
--Thomas Jefferson. 1787"Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light."
--Thomas Jefferson 1799"[This is] a country which is afraid to read nothing, and which may be trusted with anything, so long as its reason remains unfettered by law."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1816 if you dislike core american values, there are plenty of other countries where newspapers wouldn't dare to do such things.