Word: censor
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...First Amendment the founding fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of Government and inform the people...
...John Milton fought against prior restraint in Areopagitica, his famous protest to Parliament "for the Liberty of Unlicenced Printing." Hard-won democratic tradition insists that a free press is vital to an informed electorate: Anglo-American law has generally rejected any Government right to license a newspaper or censor its publication for any reason. William Blackstone, the great 18th century English jurist, stated the basic proposition: "The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matters...
...facts. He was further angered by the use of a standard reporting ploy to gain more information than he chose to give us. He claims to have issued us a "warning." We never received his "warning," and we dismiss it. We believe in our reporting, and no self-appointed censor will intimidate us into altering it. SJP has raised the issue of free speech in defense of some dubious propositions; one of them is that a newspaper is attacking their freedoms by refusing to allow them to censor the news. If we impinged upon Pasztor's freedoms to proclaim that...
...able to whipsaw British publishers with wildcat strikes or strike threats close to deadlines that amount to near blackmail. "The unions run our business," concedes Lord Thomson of Fleet, Britain's premier press lord, whose prestigious but money-losing Times is desperate for readers. Adds Thomson: "They even censor our papers...
...that the government can count on some dark pieces of statutory authority for use in civil emergencies. Federal law permits the President to take over the airwaves-radio and TV-for the duration of ambiguously defined crises. It is less clear what federal statute has allowed the Administration to censor news from Indochina, but the American press has so far graciously ceded this legal right. But once again, why bother with statutes, anyway? Since the Constitution conveniently passes over the subject of martial law, the President can indeed claim considerable authority inherent in his office as commander-in-chief...