A joint LATimes/NYT editorial

spot on... three cheers...

Thirty-five years ago yesterday, in the Supreme Court ruling that stopped the government from suppressing the secret Vietnam War history called the Pentagon Papers, Justice Hugo Black wrote: "The government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people."

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Our job, especially in times like these, is to bring our readers information that will enable them to judge how well their elected leaders are fighting on their behalf, and at what price.

i am unable to discern the "fighting" that has been done on my behalf... since the legal acknowledgment of the coup d'etat on 12 december 2000, i have watched the fundamental values of my country that i previously believed were etched in the hardest of stone, chipped away until i no longer recognize them... and the price...? incalculable...

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