The proposals now before Parliament would end any hope of an independent press or free speech.

The women's movement in the 1970s established many small, independent presses.

Nothing is more precious to me than the free and independent press.

The capital necessary to support an independent press is lacking.

"I really believe the only check on government power is a free and independent press," he said.

Milosevic is already moving against the independent press and the opposition.

Where the independent press was once underground, it has now emerged into the open.

He or she is the backbone of a free and independent press.

"That's a relationship with government that an independent press has to be very wary of," he said.

It is also an instrument which will make life very difficult for the independent press.