Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press too, of course, enjoys the widest freedom. (I shall be using the word press to include all media). But what sort of use does it make of this freedom...
...East where the press is rigorously unified: one gradually discovers a common trend of preferences within the Western press as a whole. It is a fashion; there are generally accepted patterns of judgment and there may be common corporate interests, the sum effect being not competition but unification. Enormous freedom exists for the press, but not for the readership because newspapers mostly give enough stress and emphasis to those opinions which do not too openly contradict their own and the general trend...
...requirements and characteristics of a subtler and higher nature, were left outside the area of attention of state and social systems, as if human life did not have any superior sense. That provided access for evil, of which in our days there is a free and constant flow. Merely freedom does not in the least solve all the problems of human life and it even adds a number of new ones...
However, in early democracies as in American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such was the heritage of the preceding thousand years. Two hundred or even 50 years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible, in America, that an individual could be granted boundless freedom simply for the satisfaction of his instincts or whims. Subsequently, however, all such limitations were discarded everywhere in the West; a total liberation occurred from...
...union. The decision was unanimous, but two justices voiced stronger opinions directed at the importance of union organizing. Justices Blackmun, Burger and Powell agreed with the NLRB opinion in this specific case, but objected to the reasoning behind the other Justices' opinion. Justice Brennan states in the majority opinion, "Freedom of employees effectively to communicate with one another regarding self-organization on the job is essential." In his opinion, Brennan says that the Board's decision was consistent with the Congressional intent of the legislation, for Congress did not specifically make any provisions prohibiting solicitation and distribution. Brennan dismissed...