The complete online text of The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc.

The French-born English writer Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc (1870-1953) was a noted poet, historian, essayist, and novelist. Throughout his literary career he was concerned with the problems of social reform. Hilaire Belloc was born in Saint-Cloud, Franc...

Hilaire Belloc was born in the middle of a thunderstorm, and it is hard for anyone writing about him now to resist observing how apt was this scene, since thunderclouds of controversy, often of his own seeking, seemed to surround him for much of his life...

Hilaire Belloc is chiefly remembered for his controversial political opinions, often belligerent character, and strong allegiance to the Catholic Church. His deep feelings about the important political and social issues of his day manifest themselves in...

Today is International Press Freedom Day, and newspapers all over the world are reprinting this charter. Its provisions were approved by journalists from 34 countries at a world conference on press censorship held in London in January 1987. A FREE PRESS means a...

IT WAS A BIT JARRING TO READ that the United States ranked 53rd in the Reporters Without Borders' latest annual survey on press freedom, its Worldwide Press Freedom Index. The three worst violators of flee expression were the usual suspects: North Korea, which...

Prosecutors seeking a reporter's unpublished notes from an interview with a man who shot two police officers before killing himself have appealed their case to the state Supreme Court.A state appeals court last month overturned a district judge's ruling that The Free Press of Mankato...

Neal Shine, who began as a copy boy for Detroit Free Press and worked his way up to become its managing editor and later its publisher, died Tuesday of respiratory failure after a recent illness. He was 76.Shine was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 1993...