Free Press

The role of the press in a free society is to cover news and broadcast important events to the people. They aren't completely free to do what they want but it seems like they keep their boundaries, and not go too far with things. There are some stories that shouldn't be covered by the press, like some celebrity personal issues, to tragic mass killings, to an extent. The press shouldn't interview anyone at the scene of a mass killing, it is inappropriate and reporters usually don't cross that line. 

Journalism is sometimes called the "rough draft" of history because they do not know the full truth of situations. Reporters won't ever know the full 100% of a story because they are querying information from multiple sources and trying to build a story off of it.

Whether its full truth or partial truth, I feel that free press is vital to our society in the US. Without free press there would be opportunity to censor our news coverage and we wouldn't get it as efficiently as today. With social media is great that we can see news of an event right after it happens.