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Write a brief note on the Freedom of Press.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Sociologically, freedom of the press is less a right held by newspapers than the condition of an institution — the public sphere, which Jürgen Habermas (The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, 1962) described as the arena where private people come together as a public and reason about common affairs. Its freedom is measured not…

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