Word: shams
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Such a privilege might be claimed by groups that set up newspapers in order to engage in criminal activity and to therefore be insulated from grand jury inquiry, regardless of Fifth Amendment grants of immunity [from prosecution]. It might appear that such "sham" newspapers would be easily distinguishable, yet the First Amendment ordinarily prohibits courts from inquiring into the content of expression, except in cases of obscenity or libel, and protects speech and publication regardless of their motivation, orthodoxy, truthfulness, timeliness, or taste.... By affording a privilege to some organs of communication but not to others, courts would inevitably...
...case-by-case, justice as opposed to the unimportance of a purely formal justice based on principles of equality. But the violation of formal principles, even in seemingly trivial cases, can lead to substantive wrongs in the long run. The principle of discrimination used to brand Mafiarun papers as "sham" one year can be used the next year to disqualify a Crimson reporter who is a member of a left-wing group...
Though the executive producer of the club's annual musical production said Tuesday that the sham extra was intended to be humorous, the club has since reached a $500 settlement with The Crimson...
...response to criticism that the sham extra traded on the Crimson name, Thomas H. Parry '71, executive producer of "Bewitched Bayou," said yesterday, "We just wanted to be funny. It's too bad" if people thought it was genuine...
Rafelson peoples his landscape with the misfit fringes of go-ahead America: wheeler-dealers and sham artists, gamblers, petty crooks and rootless wanderers. Though outsiders, they still cherish a belief in Monopoly's promise, winner takes the jackpot. So they circle the board in a frivolous game of one-upmanship, until life sputters out in disillusionment or disaster...