Examines the issues surrounding press freedoms in the United States from their origins in English tradition to the technological challenges of the twenty-first century.
collection of twenty essays discussing teens' right to free press. Examines issues such as newspaper content, schools' right to censor student publications, and online journalism. Includes organizations to contact and further reading.
Text and illustrations chronicle the life of controversial eighteenth-century American printer John Peter Zenger, whose trial for libel and sedition paved the way for freedom of the press.
Explains what kinds of speech constitute defamation, including libel and slander, and how to handle the issue when it arises in teen life. Related issues, including cyberbullying and hate speech, are also addressed.
Describes the Supreme Court decision in the case of New York Times v. Sullivan, preventing public officials from receiving damages for false statements unless they can prove actual malice.
Discusses the political and social implications of the Supreme Court decision allowing the publication of a secret history of the United States' involvement in Vietnam, known as the Pentagon Papers.
leading journalists expose the myth of a free press
B?rjesson, Kristina
2002
A collection of essays in which almost two dozen award-winning print and television journalists examine the dangerous state of journalism in the United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Presents the edited texts of the decisions issued by the United States Supreme Court in fourteen First Amendment Free Press cases brought before the court between 1925 and 1996.
