The Legal Protection Of Free Press In China

The freedom of the press as one of the core values of the West philosophy, since it was first proposed more than300years of history. Three hundred years, the controversy about whether to press freedom and whether there is news or not has not stopped until now. What is the freedom of the press; whether western freedom of the press is a false news freedom; what kind of boundaries and limit should freedom of the press follow; how is the legislation of freedom of the press in our country; what problems and difficulties are freedom of the press in China facing now and how to solve them; whether mature experience from western countries can be used for reference in our country and how to use? The paper analyses these problems one by one.The freedom of the press is the guarantee of the citizens’ right to learn the truth and the right of expression in substance. A country’s level of guarantee for freedom of the press reflects the degree of a country’s democratic political development and the degree of respect for human rights and freedom. With the rapid development of economy, mass communication industry in our country has also developed rapidly. The government, media and the public pay more and more attention to the freedom of the press. However, the freedom of the press in China has so many problems and difficulties at present.Analysis of the freedom of the press in China obtain the reasons of the problems, mainly legislative lag, safeguard mechanism of media power is imperfect, the media supervision mechanism is imperfect and so on. To further guarantee and perfect our system of freedom of the press, in addition to draw on the experience of foreign mature experiences, more important is to explore a method for ensuring that conforms to our country national condition the freedom of the press. To further support our freedom of the press, freedom of the press must first strengthen not absolute freedom, freedom of the press must have clear boundaries and limits; in addition, guarantee clear constitutional freedom of the press; legislate, issue the special press law; perfect the judicial protection of the freedom of the press, media self-discipline, administrative supervision and legal regulation of the organic combination.