George Freeman Lecture

The main focus of the George Freeman lecture seemed to be convincing his audience that the press should be able to have the freedom to write anything available to them. Freeman told several stories that were designed to influence his audience towards the idea that the government tries to keep some information from the public yet the New York Times will do everything in its power to keep its freedom of press.
I tend to disagree with Freeman on several issues. It seemed during his lecture that many writers from the New York Times were being deceitful. At one point in his lecture he said that one writer deliberately distributed a news story to several different papers just to spite the government because they had taken them to court to stop the distribution. To me this story made the NY times look bad.
In another example that Freeman gave he said that his biggest current worry was that some of the writers at NY times could possibly be suppeoned and forced to give sources who leaked a story to them. Essentially he was promoting that his writers break the law and keep the confidentiality of a criminal.
I found the George Freeman lecture to be very interesting despite the views I might have. I am probably in a very small minority that would agree with the government in this case but nevertheless that is what I think!