The Press, Once Fierce Defenders of the First Amendment, Wheels Against Free Speech
What a contrast with the responses by the Washington Post and New York Times to pleas from government officials not to print the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

Have we gotten to the point that it’s politically necessary to defend the principle of free speech? Apparently so.
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