Journalist: A free marketplace of ideas ensures that all ideas get a fair hearing  Even ideas tainted with prejudice and malice can prompt beneficial outcomes  In most countries, however, the government is responsible for over half the information released to the public through all media  For this reason, the power of governments over information needs to be curtailed
Everyone grants that governments should not suppress free expression, yet governments continue to construct near monopolies on the publication and dissemination of enormous amounts of information
The control that governments have over information needs to be reduced.