Such a legacy was hardly encouraging as far as the setting up of a free, unfettered press after independence was concerned.
The heart of the First Amendment is that an unfettered press is democracy's best safeguard.
With a newly unfettered press and a bored electorate, the look for a hook seems natural.
It increasingly endangers one of the pillars of the nation's freedoms: an unfettered press telling the public what is really going on.
Turkey's unfettered press has written about little else.
The balance of his comments, unlike previous statements on the issue, tilted against an unfettered press.
Once again we see that there can be no democracy without a rambunctious and unfettered press.
To join the world's civilized nations, Iran must respect an unfettered press and the basic human right to free expression.
But elections and an unfettered press alone can't create jobs or grow crops.
Despite the worsening rights situation here, Peru's unfettered press seems increasingly bored with the issue.