Press freedom

Press freedom: the material condition of democratic deliberation and the control of power.

Without press freedom there is no democratic deliberation or control over those exercising power. Defended from Milton's Areopagitica, early constitutional amendments, and international covenants, this freedom is today pressured by media concentration, state harassment, economic capture, and self-censorship. Revista Conciencia Democrática publishes analysis on the health of journalism and public speech.

Articles on press freedom (1)

Russia and Western Democracies
Timeline of a hybrid war against the rule of law. A sequence of cases stretching from Euromaidan to the Baltics: how Moscow combines propaganda, energy pressure, cyber-attacks, espionage and opaque funding to erode democratic trust without necessarily declaring war.

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