Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . . In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. |