freedom of the press

Noun

freedom of the press (uncountable)

1. The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.
   • Since the press, commanding the service of every other means of communication, is the common carrier of information, delivering it almost instantly and simultaneously through out a nation, and there is no other carrier a thousandth part so efficient any restriction upon the information it may...1917 May 30, “The Freedom of the Press”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The New York Times, page 8
   • The term free speech, which appears in this book's subtitle as well as in its text, is used more or less interchangeably with freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of expression to refer to all of the expressive rights guaranteed by the forty-five words of the First Amendment, as...2003, Mike Godwin, Cyber Rights, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 2