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Subscriptions were cancelled, threats made on him and Sunpapers’ staff, and advertisers’ products were boycotted, but Mencken's words were published.

‘The challenges facing news professionals — and threatening journalism in the public interest — are significant and cannot be avoided.’

On January 26, 2006, a few days after freelance reporter Jill Carroll was kidnapped in Iraq, Los Angeles Times correspondent Alissa J. Rubin wrote a Page One story entitled, “Abduction…

In using the Internet to share his views, Li Datong is ‘breaking the wishes of authorities who would prefer he did not speak to the foreign press.’

‘Only after I left the foreign battlefields and returned to the United States did I discover the quiet part of courage in what it is I try to do.’

‘Network news spent decades establishing its solid credentials. Now is no time for it to lose its nerve.’

‘We had the opportunity to tell the story of powerless people who'd been hurt by powerful people who counted on the public never learning what they'd done.’

The Star Tribune published strong editorials about Bush administration truth telling when few other papers did, and an editor there explores some reasons why.

Newspaper boycotts forced ‘the need for courage beyond the physical ….’

‘… the continuing timidity of the American media looked increasingly like cowardice, appeasement, or better-you-than-me cynicism.’