Posted AT 7:35 AM EDT on 02/05/08
Celebrate our freedoms: No one else will
World Press Freedom Day, which we mark tomorrow, reminds us that Western democracy is a small oasis in a world of brutal coercion that paradoxically fears nothing as much as free speech and thought.
Napoleon said he preferred to face "a thousand bayonets" than hostile newspapers. So he shut them down. Two centuries later, the world's autocrats have not changed their tactics.
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