freedom of the press

noun

1. the right to publish newspapers, magazines, and other printed matter without governmental restriction and subject only to the laws of libel, obscenity, sedition, etc.

freedom of the press

1. The right to circulate opinions in print without censorship by the government. Americans enjoy freedom of the press under the First Amendment (see also First Amendment) to the Constitution.

Example Sentences

But Spain now has “freedom of the press and freedom of expression. So I have never been short of very good publishers in Spain, and I have an extensive reading public there.”

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The US Constitution's First Amendment gives significant protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

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Hegseth’s changes have upended eight decades of norms and practices between the military and journalists, and buck over two centuries of American freedom of the press.

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Under this administration, freedom of the press is a conditional privilege.

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“We’d rather have less business and more freedom of the press.”

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