9 Jul, 2013
The New York Times and the NSA’s Illegal Spying: CounterPunch
The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation. The statesman collects his information secretly and by secret means; he keeps back even the current intelligence of the day with ludicrous precautions. The Press lives by disclosures. For us, with whom publicity and truth are the air and light of existence, there can be no greater disgrace than to recoil from the frank and accurate disclosure of facts as they are. We are bound to tell the truth as we find it, without fear of consequences–to lend no convenient shelter to acts of injustice or oppression, but to consign them at once to the judgment of the world. – Robert Lowe, editorial, London Times, 1851.
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