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(31 votes)   The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

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(30 votes)   I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

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(27 votes)   It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

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(26 votes)   The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

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(23 votes)   So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

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(23 votes)   This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

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(22 votes)   I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

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(22 votes)   It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

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(22 votes)   Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

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(21 votes)   I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

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(21 votes)   No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

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(21 votes)   The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power they just don't have.

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(20 votes)   CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

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(20 votes)   There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

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(19 votes)   I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

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