...Justice Hugo Black expressed the opinion that the press was to serve the governed not the governors. The government's power to censor the press was abolished...would remain forever free to censure the government. . . . Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government...

...Supreme Court refused to grant an injunction. According to Justice Black: In the First Amendment . . . the Government's power to censor the press was abolished...... so that the press would remain forever free to censor the government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and...

...fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censor the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and...

...last opinion before his retirement and death. "The press was protected" by the amendment, he wrote, "so that it could bare the secrets of government and...press can effectively expose deception in government. ... In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely...

...Black declares that in the First Amend1 Quoted in Bellinger, Images of Free Press, p. 177, n. 44. ment "The Government's power to censor the press was abolished...the press would remain forever free to censure the Government,"2 there is no indication that "the Government" the Justices speak of is just the White...

...injunction. In his concurring opinion with the majority, Associate Justice Hugo L. Black wrote that "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government" and that "the newspapers had nobly done that which the founders of the Republic hoped and trusted they...

...that the Founding Fathers intended that "[t]he press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished...the press would remain forever free to censure the Government."55 Although a majority of the Supreme Court voted to allow the New York Times and Washington...

...extracts from secret official documents on the origins of the Vietnam War, provided another landmark. "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government," wrote Justice Black.12 Then came the most striking of all, when a city commissioner named LB Sullivan,...

...fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished...could bare the secrets of government and inform the people."51 As an institution, the press illustrates the basic axiom of James Madison's explanation...

...fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The government's power to censor the press was abolished...that the press would remain forever free to censure government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the...