Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .
Source: In The New York Public Library Book of 20th Century American Quotations, by Stephen Donadio, 1992.
-- Potter Stewart, (Jan 13 1915-1985), US supreme court justice; He was a Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81 and the youngest ever to resign.