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//**__Link to Pros and Cons of Freedom of the Press:__  **// [|PROS and CONS.docx]

[|What is Freedom of the Press.docx]
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This is the October 15, 1927 edition of //The Saturday Press// published by Jay M. Near and Howard Guilford.

This is a U.S. postage stamp promoting Freedom of the Press

 Below is a link to a video regarding Hilary Clinton and her supposedly suppressing Freedom of the Press rights: [|Hilary Clinton and Freedom of the Press]

[|The Development of the Freedom of the Press.docx]

=[|Time Line of Freedom of the Press Battles]=

=**Libel:** = media type="file" key="0309090814.3g2" width="362" height="362" **//In addition to the journalist acting with malice, the five things that need to be proven in order to win a libel lawsuit are listed and summarized in the document below:// ** [|Ethics of journalism.docx]

[] This is a committee that is against the publishing of journalists.

Famous National Court Cases Regarding Freedom of the Press:   

A recent case happened on August 3, 2008 when a National Press Club protests jailing a New York Times Reporter, Barry Bearak who was covering the presidential election in Zimbabwe. "The National Press Club is outraged that police in Zimbabwe have detained these journalists,"said Sylvia Smith who is the Club's president. Smith has also said that "Bearak was doing his job covering the elections in that country. It is unacceptable [that] he was imprisoned for that." Bearak who is 58 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002, as well as four other journalists were arrest at a guest house in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mugabe forces raided the party offices and detained the journalists last week. According the news reports, Bearak as well as another reporter might have been charged with practicing journalism without accreditation. Smith said that "The detention has the appearance of a retribution for his [(Bearak)] coverage. By jailing these reporters without cause, the government of Zimbabwe is sending a message to the world that it opposes basic press freedoms."

 A movie involving the Pentagon Papers case that later led to the resignation of President Nixon was released in 2002.