freedom of press
Uncensored news rights
Freedom of press is the right to publish news, opinions, and information without government censorship or punishment.
It protects journalists, newspapers, and other media from state interference.
The phrase appears in the First Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution and in similar guarantees worldwide: Freedom of press is essential to democracy.
Also called freedom of the press.
- civil libertiesRights limiting government power
- news mediaInformation distribution organizations
- constitutional rightsLegally protected individual freedoms
- watchdog organizationsGroups monitoring institutional conduct
- journalistic integrityReporter's duty to truth
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- freedomexpression, speech, political liberty, belief, conscience
- rightscivil liberties, constitutional rights, right, rights, human rights
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, right to liberty, right to life, fundamental rights
- legal systemsconstitutional law, judiciary, criminal code, court system, penal code
- enlightenmentVoltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Kant, Montesquieu
freedom of pressstate-controlled media
News run by government
press censorship · censorship · state propaganda · controlled media · press restrictions
freedom of presscensorship
Official content restriction
information blackout · news blackout · media blackout · information control · restricted access
freedom of pressauthoritarianism
Concentrated, unchecked governmental power
totalitarianism · dictatorship · oppression · tyranny · fascism
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