Freedom of the Press

Freedom of the press protects the media's ability to gather, publish, and broadcast information without prior government censorship, a protection against "prior restraint," the government blocking publication before it happens, first established in Near v. Minnesota (1931) and famously applied in New York Times v. United States (1971), the Pentagon Papers case, when the Court rejected the government's attempt to block publication in advance. This freedom is not unlimited: the press can still be held legally responsible after publication for things like defamation or violating a legitimate national security law, and some narrow categories of speech remain unprotected even for the press.

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