Freedom of the press

Is it really a freedom if I am not allowed to do it? Every day there is a chance we may say something that offends another person, or something that contradicts another person’s beliefs. The United States was founded on freedom. As stated in the constitution, we have freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition against the government. People come to the U.S. just for these freedoms, because they aren’t granted in other countries. The U.S. was not made for everyone to believe the…

The Printing press started an era of education and freedom, starting in Mainz, Germany with its creator Gutenberg. The Printing press was the first mechanical printing system that allowed the general public, and even the lower classes, access to books. Locations of the printing press boomed from 1471 to 1500 showing all of the information being spread in different locations. (DOC A) Due to the printing press, many changes and new discoveries were able to happen. Two important consequences of the…

see on the internet, and there will be no way for us to know what is real and what is not. There will be no truth or freedom of press except what multinational, billionaire corporations want us to…

Freedom, according to most, would be defined simply as the first amendment of the United States Constitution. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”1 Or do they think of it as independence? I can do what I want, however I want. Freedom takes on a different meaning…

independence. While in each document the reasons for why each group fights for the independence of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain are different, they all lead to everyone in the Thirteen colonies beginning to fight the British for their freedom from acts that the English king is imposing on them from 3,000 miles away. These documents show that everyone in the Thirteen Colonies joined together to achieve the same goal, that goal being, gaining independence from Britain. The…

unavoidably, a pressure for change: in this period, only middle and upper class men could vote. The press was under the censorship of the time leading to the government creating the “Taxes of Knowledge” - taxes and duties that would be imposed upon newspapers – designed to “limit the growth, circulation, and distribution of the press in general and of the radical press in particular” (Negrine 1989) so press would never talk negative things about the system. Workers would face up to eighteen…

that many share the same traits as the ones described in these novels. In both a modern day dictatorship such freedoms as the Freedom of speech and press are repressed. And in some cases resources and food could be limited in a county that could cause civil unrest and lead to revolutions. Most if not all of…

In my opinion corporations should have the right to “freedom of press” so they can publish information that can be necessary for the people to make a decision in a political campaign. However corporations are not real people with feelings therefore I don’t think they should have the “freedom of speech” because they can interpret it in a way as in Citizens Unites case allowing them to use large amounts of money in ads that…

Constitution guaranteed a multitude of political and civil rights nearly identical to those guaranteed in the United States’ Bill of Rights. Articles 50 and 52 of the Brezhnev Constitution identified rights to the freedom of press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech (USSR Const. art. 50 & 52). However, these “rights”…

include paperback books to YouTube videos. However, the author tends to question the efficacy of freedom without counterbalance checks in terms of professional standards. This could lead of deterioration of societal standards and a collapse of our intellectual strength. He feels that the same could make our young people stupid. He cited the analogy of the spread of Gutenberg's press. Unfettered press allowing multiple versions of…