Censoring the Media

Back in 1971, a man named Daniel Ellsberg, who worked for the Pentagon, stole classified documents titled, "The Pentagon Papers." He then gave these documents over to The New York Times, who published them for the public to view. Right away the US government filed for and was granted an order to stop the publishing of the papers. When this case was appealed to the Supreme Court, the justices came to the unanimous decision that the government could not censor information printed by The New York Times or any press related material. The government argued that it should be able to keep private things that could potentially cause danger to national security. Justice Hugo Black reasoned that "freedom of the press" is written in the Constitution so that the public can be informed of what the government is doing. How can the government take that right away from the people? I agree with the ruling of the Court for this case. The public has the right to know what goes on between the US and other countries, and the media has the right to publish whatever they want.