Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tension between power centers is useful in America. But the judiciary ought to reflect about what it is doing. In important respects, judges really are in the same boat as journalists, and ultimately in the service of the same ideals. People who cheer the courts' moves against the press...
Still, journalism in America was a high-risk trade. Editors were always in danger of being challenged to duels or horsewhipped or beaten up by gangs. During the War of 1812, one antiwar newspaper was actually blasted by a mob with a cannon. On the frontier, tarring and feathering editors...
True, the press still features triviality, gossip, scandal. It always will. Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun-like Hearst and Pulitzer quite a phrasemaker and an exemplar of the era-declared that the Sun could not be blamed for reporting what God had permitted to happen. That was...
> The press is not too powerful; if anything, it is not powerful enough. Those who want to curb the press point out that it is no longer the "fragile" thing it was when the First Amendment was written. But neither is the Government. When Franklin Roosevelt took office, the federal...
Do recent court actions really make much of a difference to journalists in practice? Many judges doubt it, but let them try an experiment and take on a tough reporting assignment. Let them try to get complicated and controversial information from resisting sources and amid conflicting claims - without the judicial...