May 3 is World Press Freedom Day (also Constitution Day in Poland and Japan). Let's better get to know "freedom of the press."
This liberty is protection to the media and other published materials, giving people the right to print anything in public reading material without interference (as long as it's true/practical). This right is addressed in the U.S. Constitution or, more accurately, the Bill of Rights. However, with more and more people questioning this right, it is harder to take what people print seriously. And people in the news can pretty much say whatever they want, which has made several misleading "facts." Like "The president's a socialist Muslim Nazi terrorist who's Kenyan voodoo health-care program will take over America," so pretty much anything they say on Fox News.
I wonder if other countries deal with this kind of stuff.
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