If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and one, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
Freedom of the press appears to be under siege in what used to be thought of as free nations.
But Tory Maria Miller said leaders still needed to discuss details.
Go here to BBC News to read the appalling rest. Politicians tend to hate the media covering them and that is to be expected.  Few of us like to be criticized, and politicians tend to have bigger egos than most. That is precisely however why a media free of any form of government control is so important. The natural tendency is for those wielding political power to seek to co-opt those members of the media friendly to them and to neuter those who are not. That is precisely why the Founding Fathers put into the First Amendment the guarantee of freedom of the press and took from Congress the power to regulate the press, because they understood this natural tendency and wished to erect a barrier against it. Freedom is rarely lost all at once. It is lost over time, by fragments. This attempt to regulate the media is one such fragment of freedom lost.
but the real question is, did Churchill have topless Page 3 girls in mind when he said that
Neither is the press free when it voluntarily becomes an arm of the state.
Only TRUTH has Freedom of speech and of the press, the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTH.