English Dictionary

freedom of the press

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɹiː.dəm əv ðə ˈpɹɛs/

名詞

不可算名詞

The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.

日本語の意味

報道の自由：市民やメディアが、検閲や処罰の恐れなく、自らの意見、思想、情報などを印刷物やその他の手段で自由に発信する権利

Journalists rallied in the square to defend freedom of the press after several reporters were threatened for exposing corruption.

数人の記者が腐敗を暴いたことで脅迫された後、ジャーナリストたちは広場で報道の自由を守るために結集した。

意味（1）

The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.

Since the press, commanding the service of every other means of communication, is the common carrier of information, delivering it almost instantly and simultaneously through out a nation, and there is no other carrier a thousandth part so efficient any restriction upon the information it may convey deprives every citizen in some degree of capacity for intelligent thought and wise action. This is obviously of great importance in relation to the affairs of government and that is why since its vital connection with the welfare of peoples has been understood, the freedom of the press has been so jealously guarded no more by its own servants than by the statesman, the publicist, and the enlightened citizen.