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a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology

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Similarly, I think a free Press would be a good idea; a Press free from both state and corporate control.
Hery, therefore, called on the existence of free press, as he says, "it keeps people accountable and it keeps governments transparent."
Benjamin Theodore Batsford, who was the staff editorial cartoonist for many years with the Manitoba Free Press, used his comic talents to make a name for himself in the early 1920s.
However, the Free Press reported that the magazine later discovered it had miscalculated the HEVs' depreciation costs.
In the Bush lexicon, speaking unpleasant truths means being "with the terrorists" Speaking such truths is also the responsibility of a free press. Avoiding the threat of such censure by the Bush junta means abdicating one's responsibility as a journalist.
Like the free market, the free press may allow behavior that some consider unethical, such as excessively cozy relationships between reporters and their sources.
"The Bush administration's proposal to offer amnesty to illegal immigrant workers has prompted federal officials to instruct border patrol agents not to disclose information that might reflect poorly on the idea, a government document shows," reported the January 21 Detroit Free Press.
Meriwether, who led the Detroit Free Press as it won two Pulitzer Prizes, said July 24 he will retire as publisher in December.
Still, trying to keep a free press at arm's length from the war, or attempting to prevent the American public from seeing the devastating effects of the war being prosecuted in their name, is not right and will only undermine our confidence in the people leading this war--and expecting us to follow them on future campaigns in Iraq, Syria, or elsewhere.
It was during this time that William McGowan, a former Washington Monthly editor and current Manhattan Institute fellow, signed on with Simon & Schuster's Free Press to write a book critiquing how a poorly conceived and executed push to diversify newsgathering organizations was robbing American journalism of its objectivity.
Members of the city's Newspaper Guild overwhelmingly approved new contracts at the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press last month.
16, echoes the same theme of a year ago, namely President Donald Trump describes the "free press" as "enemies of the people." The theme has not changed, neither has the "free press" MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, etc.
BRUSSELS, May 2 (KUNA) -- The European Union Thursday underlined that there is no democracy without a truly free press. On World Press Freedom Day, which falls on May 3, "we celebrate the essential role of a free press not only as a conveyer of reliable and accurate news, but as a pillar of democracy," EU High Representative Federica Mogherini said in a Declaration on behalf of the 28-member Union.
15 meeting, NCA 18-184 would have reinstated the tribe's Free Press Act as previously written and reseated the three-member editorial board that served as a firewall between the Mvskoke Media newsroom and government officials.
Hundreds of newspapers across the country published editorials on Thursday in defense of a free press. In response to President Trump's "enemy of the people" bombast, the Boston Globe's editorial board led the pack, publishing an editorial under a headline that read "Journalists Are Not the Enemy" and putting out a call to other newspapers to address the topic.