Press Freedom stories:
Thousands gather in Rome to defend press freedom, target Berlusconi's alleged intrusions
Oct 3rd, 2009 - StarTribune
ROME - Tens of thousands of people, including journalists and media rights activists, gathered in a Rome square Saturday to defend press freedom, accusing Premier Silvio Berlusconi of trying to silence critical voices. Berlusconi...
Chinese 'assault' concerns spread
Sep 14th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
The Hong Kong protest was backed by a number of news outlets A senior pro-China figure in Hong Kong has said he will convey concerns about alleged police brutality against Hong Kong journalists to Beijing.
Japanese researcher recalls imprisonment in North Korea
Jun 4th, 2009 - CNN
Euna Lee has been in North Korean custody since March, when she and another reporter were detained. "When I was first arrested, I thought my life had ended. I was wondering how I would be killed...
Sri Lanka's media mistake
May 12th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
On Sunday a Channel 4 news team was deported from Sri Lanka. Their crime? Filming interviews with aid workers at a civilian internment camp who spoke of food shortages, rape and abductions...
Global Press Freedom Declines
May 1st, 2009 - VOA News
Journalists are facing an increasingly dismal working environment, with a decline in global press freedom in every region of the world. Those are among the findings of a report released Friday by Freedom House...
Press Freedom videos from YouTube:
3:58Freedom of the Press in Decline - VOA Story
Press freedom suffered continued global decline in 2006, with particularly troubling trends evident in Asia, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. A major study of the state of media freedom released today by Freedom House ...
8:00Press freedom threatened in Slovakia
New legislation that includes a person's right to respond to press criticism has become a threat to press freedom in Slovakia, according to this programme made available by the European Parliament titled "Media Pluralism in Europe ...
5:23JFK SPEECH ON SECRET SOCIETIES AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
Brilliant JFK Speach i got off google video.
23:54Inside Story - Press freedom - 3 Nov 09
We discuss the lack of press freedom in the Arab world, and the increased government crackdown on journalists.
Press Freedom from WikiPedia:
News • Writing • Ethics • Objectivity • Values • Attribution • Defamation • Editorial independence • Education • Other topics
Freedom of the press consists of constitutional or statutory protections pertaining to the media and published materials.
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.
"I fear the newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."— Napoleon Bonaparte
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