-If the government wins and we're convicted. The Washington Post as we know it will cease to exist.
-If we live in a world where the government could tell us what we can and cannot print, then the Washington Post as we know has already ceased to exist.
And all the ones (will win) after that because we were scared. Because the only way to assert the right to publish is to publish.
The Founding Father gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.
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