Do we hold the state to be legitimate?

David Carr wrote in today’s New York Times:
“Mainstream media may spend a lot of time trying to ferret information out of official hands, but they largely operate in the belief that the state is legitimate and entitled to at least some of its secrets.”
In Western democracies, we may well work under the belief that [...]

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