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Don’T Expect The First Amendment To Protect The Media, Ronnell Anderson Jones, Sonja R. West
Don’T Expect The First Amendment To Protect The Media, Ronnell Anderson Jones, Sonja R. West
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Op-ed in the New York Times about the limits on the protection of the press under the First Amendment.
The Fragility Of The Free American Press, Ronnell Anderson Jones, Sonja R. West
The Fragility Of The Free American Press, Ronnell Anderson Jones, Sonja R. West
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President Donald Trump has faced criticism for attacking the press and for abandoning longstanding traditions of accommodating and respecting it. This Essay argues that the national discussion spurred by Trump’s treatment of the press has fallen short of capturing the true seriousness of the situation. Trump’s assault on the custom of press accommodation follows a generation-long collapse of other major press protections. In order to fully understand the critical juncture at which American press freedom now stands, we must expand the discussion beyond talk of a rogue president’s aberrant attacks on the press and consider the increasingly fragile edifice on …