How Freedom of the Press Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Countries around the world – capitalist democracies to communist unitary states – guarantee a free press in their constitutions. It turns out, though, that there is a galaxy of methods for subverting a free press. Find out why that matters in this episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.1	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too and this is Stuff You Should Know Constitutional
0:51.0	Professors Edition.
0:54.0	It was the best ticket to come up with on such short notice.
0:56.8	I only had a couple days to think of it.
0:59.0	This one was sort of depressing for me.
1:07.5	We're talking about Freedom of the Press and while we have that in the United States,
1:15.0	I guess we can go and spoil a little bit if you look at rankings of the Press's World
1:20.8	Wide.
1:21.8	We are not near the top of that list, my friend.
1:25.4	No.
1:26.4	The reporters without borders is a French organization.
1:31.0	They basically rate the press freedoms, I guess, in 180 different countries.
1:39.4	The freeness.
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