Word: presse
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...helps give us a certain legitimacy with the Boston press, but I am not sure it will seriously impress the administration," McKean said...
...chain Food Lion against ABC has frequently been misrepresented as a grand constitutional battle, a conflict over whether the First Amendment lets reporters commit fraud. The recent federal appeals court decision throwing out almost all of the damages against ABC represents a narrowly and wisely drawn opinion that protects press freedoms without giving the news media an open license to violate...
...than $5 million in damages; the excessive figure was reduced by the district court to about $300,000. Yet in a 2-1 decision on Oct. 20, a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out all but $2 of the damages, affirming the principle that the press cannot be penalized for reporting stories that are true...
...First Amendment places strict requirements on libel suits that challenge a story's truth or falsehood. To tie the information presented in a story to the method in which the story was written, in the words of the appeals court, would represent an "end-run" around existing doctrines of press freedoms...
However, the Food Lion case represents at best a Pyrrhic victory for the American press. Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public...