There had been subsequent hurdles that Near v. Minnesota have to go through with Near representing the media, and consequently, freedom of the press. Jay M. Near has been described as anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-black, and anti-labor who began publishing The Saturday Press in Minneapolis. Using the Minnesota Nuisance Law passed in 1925 or the Public Nuisance Law of 1925, also called the Gag Law, has permitted Judge Matthias Baldwin of the Hennepin County District Court to close down a publication by injunction. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, ruled that except in very rare cases, censorship is unconstitutional.
If the Supreme Court has ruled differently in the case, it could have been easily understandable that nobody has the right to express their grievances when they felt oppressed, question the authorities for the excessive practice of their powers vested on them by the governed, and a media or press that dwindles in the face of the slightest adversary, and that is, on publishing the concerns of voters or consumers. The ruling has shown the true meaning of the freedom of the press, as well as upheld the First Amendment where the governed have matters in their hand when it comes to public officials and their conduct. As the text of the First Amendment goes, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Consequently, the kind of news we read today are clean, press release materials that paint up scrubbed images of local, national, and international officials, as well as a flooding of the best about government activities while the jurisdiction and the various government agencies are filled with lies, corruption, and graft. While the powers that are were projected quite well, the citizenry suffers, as well as gagged.