id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3990 Freedom of the press - Wikipedia .html text/html 10142 1297 63 Reporters Without Borders considers the number of journalists murdered, expelled or harassed, and the existence of a state monopoly on TV and radio, as well as the existence of censorship and self-censorship in the media, and the overall independence of media as well as the difficulties that foreign reporters may face to rank countries in levels of press freedom. It says it uses the tools of journalism to help journalists by tracking press freedom issues through independent research, fact-finding missions, and a network of foreign correspondents, including local working journalists in countries around the world. Fifty years earlier, at a time of civil war, John Milton wrote his pamphlet Areopagitica (1644).[20] In this work Milton argued forcefully against this form of government censorship and parodied the idea, writing "when as debtors and delinquents may walk abroad without a keeper, but unoffensive books must not stir forth without a visible jailer in their title." Although at the time it did little to halt the practice of licensing, it would be viewed later a significant milestone as one of the most eloquent defenses of press freedom.[20] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3990.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3990.txt