Free Speech- Is This an Impossible Commodity?

Whispering behind canvas veil ― In 1948 the Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a New York bookseller who sold magazines that contained fictional stories of murder and bloodshed. In a ringing passage supporting freedom of speech, the Court wrote in ‘Winters v. New York’ that it did not accept the argument that “the constitutional protection for a free press applies only to the exposition of ideas.” In an oft-cited passage, the majority declared: “The line between the informing and the entertaining is too[...]