Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
Bit of a difference.

One is having the government place restrictions on a free press. A government that tries to censor or push its own agenda would transform the press from being free to being state controlled.

The other is a free press being just that. Free to publish or not what it sees fit.

Can you imagine the New York Times publishing that the U.S. had broken the Japanese and German code in WWII? Of Course not! Back then, they had restraint when it same to national security against foreign elements trying to destroy us.

In the current era, The New York Times has chosen an anti-Bush political agenda over the security of the United States. It has no right to publish classified LEGAL secrets and should be prosecuted as seditious to the interests of the country.

This is not a question of free speech. I cannot legally yell "bomb" in a crowded theatre, nor can the press print information that places lives in danger. There are sensibilites one must refrain from breaching in the interest of saving lives.