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The press, long enshrineil ornong our tnost highty cherisheil, itrstitutions, was thought o contetstone of detnocracy when its nome was boldly inscribed, in the Bill, ol Rights. Freed. trorn goaennnental restraint, initially by the first amendment onil. later by the fourteenth, the press was to stanil, mojesti,cally as the chonpion ol new ideos and. the watch dog against goaennnental abwe. Prolessor Baton finds this conception ol the f,rst ammdment, perhaps realistic in the eighteenth cenhtry heyday ol political, pomplileteering, essentially rcmantic in an ero marhed, by extraordinary tecbrcIogical d.eaelopntents ir the conmutications ind.,ustry. To nake uiable the ti.mehonoreil "narhetplace', theory, he orgues tor a twentieth century interpretation of the first amenitrment which will, inQose an ofinnotiae responsibility on tlrc monofoly newspaler to act as sounding board, for new ideas anil old grieuances.

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