No argument, we may suppose, can now be needed, against permitting a legislature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people, to prescribe opinions to them, and determine what doctrines or what arguments they shall be allowed to hear.
The problem with the modern press freedom of the press arguments is that the executive control of the press *DOES* identify itself with being representative of the people. It’s just that large swathes of the population do not identify the executives as being representative of the people.
