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n. The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.
WordNet
n. a right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution
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Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the freedom of communication and expression through mediums including various electronic media and published materials. While such freedom mostly implies the absence of interference from an overreaching state, its preservation may be sought through constitutional or other legal protections.
With respect to governmental information, any government may distinguish which materials are public or protected from disclosure to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified or secret and being otherwise protected from disclosure due to relevance of the information to protecting the national interest. Many governments are also subject to sunshine laws or freedom of information legislation that are used to define the ambit of national interest.
The United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers"
This philosophy is usually accompanied by legislation ensuring various degrees of freedom of scientific research (known as scientific freedom), publishing, press and printing the depth to which these laws are entrenched in a country's legal system can go as far down as its constitution. The concept of freedom of speech is often covered by the same laws as freedom of the press, thereby giving equal treatment to spoken and published expression.
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Freedom of the Press is a yearly report by US-based non-governmental organization Freedom House, measuring the level of freedom and editorial independence enjoyed by the press in nations and significant disputed territories around the world.
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Changes in Freedom of the Press Classifications 1989-2015
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Freedom of the press is the freedom of communication and expression through mediums.
Freedom of the press may also refer to:
- "The Freedom of the Press" (Animal Farm), George Orwell's preface to Animal farm
- Freedom of the Press (report), a yearly report by Freedom House
- Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), a non-profit organization to support freedom of the press
- Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP), a non-profit organization to protect threatened journalists in Colombia
- Freedom Press, an anarchist publishing house in the United Kingdom
Usage examples of "freedom of the press".
When the republicans resisted, he dismissed his Chamber of Deputies by royal decree and took away the freedom of the press.
Socialism of confronting the political movement with the socialistic demands, of hurling the traditional anathemas against liberalism, against representative government, against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeois legislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses that they had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement.
See, theyve got this Freedom of the Press thing, so when anybody takes out a killing lahcense he got to tell the reporters raht away.
It has always been my inclination to encourage freedom of the press and to keep my public relations on a good basis.
First Amendment freedom of the press to get things wrong Oscar, they.
At the time of the oath of the Tennis Court, he redoubles his efforts to induce Lafayette and other patriots to make some arrangement with the King to secure freedom of the press, religious, liberty, trial by jury, the habeas corpus, and a national legislature, - things which he could certainly be made to adopt, - and then to retire into private life, and let these institutions act upon the condition of the people until they had rendered it capable of further progress, with the assurance that there would be no lack of opportunity for them to obtain still more.
Back in the USE, freedom of the press is written into the Constitution.
We have complete freedom of the press in A-Io, which inevitably means we get a lot of trash.
We have freedom of the press, freedom of religion, liberated women, and democratic elections.