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The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.