“Milne: No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
Ruth: I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.”
Act I
Night and Day (1978)
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The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.
New York Times (November 28, 1954).
Judicial opinions
“Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press.”
Afterwords on the Life of Kings, p. 436
The Boys Of Summer

On Have I Got News For You, 11 October 2013.

On his growing wariness in talking to the media, Spin Magazine, Autumn 2007.
People

The Glenn Beck Program
Premiere Radio Networks
2010-08-13
Beck still demonizing Tides Foundation -- "made specifically to launder the money"
2010-08-13
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008130010
2010s, 2010

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, none ever will.”
No government ought to be without censors: & where the press is free, no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson, letter http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl100.htm to George Washington (9 September 1792)
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“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
Letter to George Washington (9 September 1792)
1790s