freeSpeech is the most distinct element of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and it's also the most-criticized one.

Rome Hartman admits: "People either like it or hate it. People who hate it really hate it. And some of those people work here."

Today's NYT says "he and other CBS News executives continued to defend “Free Speech” overall: they cited it as one of the chief lures for young people, and said they had no immediate plans to jettison it..."