But the Fourth Amendment imposes press restrictions in the middle of political campaigns.
He imposed press censorship, ruthlessly extinguished his enemies and instituted laws that enabled him to send thousands to their deaths without trial.
Mrs Gandhi's reply was to proclaim a state of emergency, suspend basic civil liberties, impose strict press censorship, and imprison 160,000 opponents, including Narayan and the entire Opposition leadership.
Those sanctions were imposed to press Iran, so far unsuccessfully, to halt its suspect nuclear program.
In 1967 verdicts by a majority of the jury were made possible, and restrictions were imposed on press coverage of preliminary hearings.
The sanctions, which included an arms embargo against the Taliban but not against its northern-based opponents, were imposed to press the hard-line militia to close terrorist training camps and hand over Osama bin Laden, who is wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa that killed 224 people.
On one wall, five lurid sample pages from horror comics were introduced with the large title "KILL!" and a caption asking "Should your child see this?" Apparently no recordings survive of the discussions about these comics broadcast on BBC television and radio, but debates in parliament reveal the misgivings about trying to curb them without imposing wider press censorship.
If "press freedom" is shorthand for a veto on parliament setting out the standards that a self-regulatory body should impose on the press then the term should be jettisoned.
Mr. Murdoch was offering his assessment on the state of the industry in response to questions about which additional regulations he thought the British government should impose on the press.
In addition to raising constitutional questions about the limits the government can impose on the press, the clash between the Pentagon and the media highlights broader issues of how secretive the military commissions at Guant?mo remain.
