August 6, 2008

"Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. One would then like to ask by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? In the communist East a journalist is frankly appointed as a state official. But who has granted Western journalists their power, for how long a time and with what prerogatives?"
- Alexsander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address; Thursday June 8, 1978