Word: antipress
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...appeals judge, Scalia has been almost gratuitously antipress. He dissented from an opinion by his rival for the high court, Judge Bork, that threw out a suit by Bertell Ollman, a New York University professor who had been vilified as a Marxist by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Bork held that the column was merely opinion and thus protected speech; Scalia argued that it was "a coolly crafted libel." In his 100-page dissent, Scalia wondered why columnists, "even with full knowledge of the falsity or recklessness of what they say, should be able to destroy private reputations...
Free Speech. Although the Burger Court has often been accused by editorial writers of an antipress bias, the Rehnquist Court may make the pundits positively nostalgic. Burger wrote a number of pro-press decisions during his tenure. In the 1980 case of Richmond Newspapers Inc. vs. Virginia, for instance, Burger held that under the First Amendment the press and the public have the right to attend most criminal trials. Rehnquist dissented, as he usually does in cases protecting press freedom...
...also truthful, keenly professional and dedicated to exposing wrongdoing in high places. Reporters have delighted in seeing themselves depicted as figures of quixotic integrity in plays ranging from the Broadway musical Woman of the Year to Tom Stoppard's rueful tragicomedy Night and Day. But the current wave of antipress feeling in the U.S. may have spread to Britain as well. Audiences at London's National Theater, which in 1972 staged an acclaimed revival of The Front Page, are cheering now for Pravda, a coruscating, comic attack on Fleet Street that portrays reporters as timid, trivial and truckling and that...
Free Speech. The Burger Court has been taken to task on editorial pages for being antipress in First Amendment cases, but in fact the record is mixed. The court has generally protected the press's right to print the news, while refusing to give reporters special protection for news gathering. Thus it has struck down prior restraints on publication but refused to give reporters a First Amendment right to shield sources...
...this week's cover story, TIME assesses the reasons behind a relatively new phenomenon, the increasingly low regard that Americans have for their press. Some of this antipress feeling is justified, some understandable, some the result of a troublesome misunderstanding of the role and motives of the institution of journalism. Once again, the press itself is news...