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The liberty of the press is essential to the security of the state.

Again from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: “When John Adams wrote ‘A Constitution or Form of Government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ in 1779, he included a guarantee of liberty of the press.

“It’s an abuse of power, which violates the liberty of the press.”

“It’s a French particularity. But to say it’s a threat to the liberty of the press? . . . It has no impact whatsoever on the right to inform.”

Central to this discussion are federal cases concerning journalists’ privilege under state law as well as the Supreme Court’s clear statement that “liberty of the press is the right of the lonely pamphleteer who uses carbon paper or a mimeograph just as much as of the large metropolitan publisher who utilizes the latest photocomposition methods” from Branzburg v.