Manchester, Conn. Journal Inquirer
Quotes from the Center for First Amendment Rights' annual Milton Sorokin Symposium:
* "If [First Amendment protections are] fading, all I can say to people is, 'You will miss us when we're gone," said Pittsbugh Post-Gazette executive editor
David Shribman.
* "I don't think the public gives a damn about the First Amendment," said press critic
Michael Massing. "I don't know if they ever have. ...I get uncomfortable when the press says, 'We have special rights, we are the Fourth Estate, we are representing the public.'"
* "Most [journalists] aren't on the take, most of us know how to behave in public, and most of us do our jobs with dispatch and professionalism," said Shribman.
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