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What, exactly, is press freedom, and why does it matter? In the popular
discourse of the United States, we do not ask this question very often or
very deeply. The answers are obvious and almost cliché: the public has a
right to know, journalists are the people’s watchdogs, they afflict the com-
fortable and comfort the afflicted, democracy dies in darkness, and voters
need objective information to be good citizens. Popular histories of modern
U.S. journalism celebrate heroes who spoke truth to power and brought
down institutions—Ida B. Wells, Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, Edward R. Murrow,
I. F. Stone, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite. They often are
remembered as most effective when they were left alone to pursue their
visions of what they thought the public needed. These virtuous, creative,
public-spirited, hard-working storytellers occupy powerful positions within
the modern mythology of press freedom. If we just get out of the way of
good journalists and let them tell truth to power, they will produce the
information that vibrant democracies need.