![]() ![]() That’s a lesson that has rarely needed to be heard as much as it does today. When the press begins to accept restrictions, however grudgingly, it’s all but inviting itself to be muzzled. “The Post” offers not so much a message as a warning: that freedom of the press is a fight that never stops, and that the force that keeps it going is the absolute die-hard belief in that freedom. In 1971, following the public revelation of the Pentagon Papers, both the Times and the Post stood tall against an injunction, filed by the Nixon White House, to cease publication of the classified documents - an attempt at legal clampdown that could well have snuffed the Fourth Estate as we know it. ![]()
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