Thursday, February 28, 2013

THE ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NY TIMES, 2/28 BOB WOODWARD SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN THREATENED TAKE ENCOURAGEMENT FROM JEFFERSON FOR YOUR WORK "Since truth and reason have maintained their ground against false opinions in league with false facts, the press confined to truth needs no other legal restraint. The public judgment will correct false reasonings and opinions on a full hearing of all parties, and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press and its demoralizing licentiousness. If there be still improprieties which this rule would not restrain, its supplement must be sought in the censorship of public opinion." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805. ME 3:381

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