0 If a country has a free press, its newspapers, magazines, and television and radio stations are able to express any opinions they want, even if these criticize the government and other organizations:
How can there be democratic elections without a free press?
The reform effort also illustrates the role of a free press and public opinion.
Furthermore, there is nothing resembling a free press, nor open debate, in a majority of poor countries.
A nominally free press is harassed in myriad ways, and the government retains a radio monopoly.
But he also sees him as authoritarian to the core, a man who has little use for either a free press or free expression.
They assigned a critical role to a free press and local forms of representation.
Free press and public debates favour the emergence of a public space.
The demand for a free press was as strong in the 1980s as it had been 50 years before.
In this context, liberal demands for a free press reflected a desire for information, quite as much as they reflected a longing for liberty.
