12-11-2010, 01:25 AM
Newspapers have always pushed the envelopes of free speech when TV news didn't, they are the one part of the mainstream media thats more difficult to corrupt because they're run by good journalists who want accurate facts and to get the story out quickly. Cablegate was published by The Guardian, The New York Times, and several other large papers. Back in the 70's The New York Times published The Pentagon Papers and The Washington Post published coverage of The Watergate Scandal. All this despite enormous government and corporate pressure to censor the papers.