...continuing violation of the First Amendment." He emphasized that the First Amendment protected the press "so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people," and he rejected the claim of national security as a legitimate ground for limiting this right, because...

...„checking value" hat das oberste Gericht der USA den Medien wiederholt zugesprochen:44 The Goverment's power to censor the press was abolished so that the...was protected so that it could bare the secrets of govemment and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception...

...concurring opinions showed the justices' distaste for the Vietnam war.14 He quotes Justice Black saying, "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively...responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to foreign lands to die of foreign...

...opinion, the last he would write on the Court: The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished...protected so that it could bare the secrets of government 60 and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government....

...defending the public's right to know. QUOTABLES "The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished...press can effectively expose deception in government." —Justice Hugo Black, New York Times v. US, 403 US 713 (1971) The right to know, however, is not guaranteed...

...Times" veröffentlicht hatte, obwohl sie dafür von der Regierung des Landesverrats bezichtigt wurde: „The Government's power to censor the press was...unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in goveraraent." (zit. n. Blasi 1977: 649) In den wichtigen presserechtlichen Entscheidungen hat der Supreme...

...it succinctly in the Pentagon Papers case, thirty-six years ago. "The government's power to censure the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government," he wrote. "The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people."...

...awakening public interest in governmental affairs," Estes v. Texas, 381 US 532, 539 (1965), and it "was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people." New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 US 713, 717 (1971) (Black, J., concurring). The news media...

...society. In the case of New York Times Co. v. United States, US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote, "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." That case involved the famous Pentagon Papers, an internal Pentagon report about the Vietnam War. It...

...making it easier to deceive the people. As Justice Hugo L. Black once wrote in a landmark opinion, "The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception...