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Free press   /fri prɛs/   Listen
Free press

noun
1.
A press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology.





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"Free press" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sara Lee was to learn that the Savoy was not London. She was to learn other things—that America knew more, through a free press, of war conditions than did England. And she was to learn what never ceased to surprise her—the sporting instinct of the British which made their early slogan "Business as usual." Business and pleasure—but only on the surface. Underneath was a dogged and obstinate determination to make ...
— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... congratulated on having written such an appealing book for girls, and the girls are to be congratulated on having the privilege of reading it."—The Detroit Free Press. ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
... when they will be," responded James. "A free press is indispensable to human progress. So long as I run the Courant it shall speak plainly of intolerance and hypocrisy of every form. I shall hit the corruption of the times ...
— From Boyhood to Manhood • William M. Thayer
... of the people of the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky. His sketches are short but graphic; he paints his scenes and his hill people in terse and simple phrases and makes them genuinely picturesque, giving us glimpses of life that are distinctively American.—Detroit Free Press. ...
— The Damsel and the Sage - A Woman's Whimsies • Elinor Glyn
... of the pleasant, gossipy order of books. He is well qualified, indeed, to do so, for he is painstaking in the collection of interesting literary facts, methodical in setting them forth, and he loves books with genuine ardour."—Aberdeen Free Press. ...
— Bygone Punishments • William Andrews


Words linked to "Free press" :   gutter press, public press, press


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