Reporters should keep their word to their sources.
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I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.Floyd Abrams
No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
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A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing Why are you limiting speech about elections' But that's what we're doing, and that's what the legislation that passed yesterday does.
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The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power they just don't have.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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