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The Price of a Free Press

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Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
July 28, 2006
Some Republican congressmen accused the New York Times of treason after the paper exposed a secret government program that monitored international bank transactions. New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. defends the decision to run the story, and the media's right to uncover government activities in a July 13 speech at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.



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