Word: burger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stanford ruling came only weeks after Chief Justice Warren Burger declared, in an opinion in another case, that journalists have no greater right to free speech than other people do. Though the justices have a mixed record on press-freedom issues, last week's decision was seen by many journalists as unmistakable evidence of court hostility to the press. Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas blasted the decision as "incredible and terrible." ABC News Commentator Howard K. Smith called it the "most dangerous ruling the court has made in memory." Washington Star Executive Editor Sidney Epstein was afraid the court...
...that great swath of the United States, a land that can barely be glimpsed from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons, pastures and cornfields, laced with urgent...
Basically, Burger seemed to be saying two things: that media conglomerates are corporations and if they enjoy free speech, so should any other corporation; and that there is no basis to the argument that news organizations should enjoy "special and extraordinary privileges or status" under the First Amendment...
Many journalists would readily concede Burger's point that the press possesses no special corner on virtue, wisdom or restraint. But he also maintains that a corporation whose principal and openly stated business is publishing news is guaranteed no more protection than any other corporation. Many newsmen−and some constitutional lawyers−would surely dispute that point...
Chief Justice Warren Burger, dissenting with Justice William Rehnquist, maintained that Congress in its 1964 Civil Rights Act never intended an "effect upon pension plans so revolutionary and discriminatory−this time favorable to women at the expense of men." At least for the time being, the court's ruling is limited to contributory pension plans−most of which are for public employees−in which women make a greater contribution. The ruling does not yet invalidate plans in which the contributions are equal but not the benefits...