Word: benno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process is not used for harassment or delay, in press cases or any others. Indeed, it may be that lengthy pretrial discovery, as Lando endured, is a much greater threat to freedom of the press than questioning a reporter's state of mind. Said Columbia Law School Professor Benno Schmidt: "Knowing that someone could tie you up for days in pretrial discovery at huge expense might be enough reason not to publish a story...
...shoulder that the Justices have turned toward press claims of special privilege in recent decisions. "When journalists rely on the First Amendment in these cases, they'd better face the fact they're not going to get much help from the Supreme Court," says Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt. One reporter who agrees is Farber, who is finishing a book on the case. Says he: "I wasn't surprised. I became accustomed to hearing bad things from the courts...
...Powell, Brennan and Marshall are trying to find a way to protect practical needs of the press in specific circumstances. But other Justices tend to rely on their own intuitive judgments about whether a given ruling will "chill" press freedom. "In the Stanford Daily case," notes Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt, "Justice White [who wrote the majority opinion] just doesn't believe that sources will dry up." Notes Gunther: "There is a great deal of misunderstanding and suspicion between press and court. Both sides are at fault...
...fear that Niemi's suit, if successful, will drastically undermine constitutional free speech guarantees. "I would regard it a very dangerous principle that would hold a broadcaster or a publisher liable for the imitation of what it showed or published in a creative context," commented Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. "It would be a dreadfully chilling rule of law." In a friend-of-the-court brief, CBS warned that the principle could be extended to press coverage of violent news−hijackings or murders, for example...
...Benno Blimpie (James Coco) is no freak in spirit. In his desperate need for love, his touching vulnerability, and his wistful desire for the approval of other children, he is linked to every human being who ever has been or ever will be born. His mother (Rosemary De Angelis), an embittered witch, treats Benno like scum and heaps epithets on him like offal. His father (Roger Serbagi) does not hate Benno, but one minute is about the attention span of his concern, so it comes to the same thing. Denied, neglected, degraded by everyone he turns to, Benno devours...