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The Deregulatory First Amendment At Work, Charlotte Garden
The Deregulatory First Amendment At Work, Charlotte Garden
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It has been more than seventy years since Justice Hugo Black wrote that First Amendment rights were “essential to the poorly financed causes of little people.” Since then, the well-financed causes of the powerful have discovered the First Amendment as well, deploying it to crowd out the little people in electoral politics and undo their legislative successes in the courts. The seeds for this project were planted in the 1970s — the decade in which Justice Lewis Powell joined the Court, and in which the Court decided both Buckley v. Valeo and Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens …
Thugs, Crooks, And Rebellious Negroes: Racist And Racialized Media Coverage Of Michael Brown And The Ferguson Demonstrations, Bryan Adamson
Thugs, Crooks, And Rebellious Negroes: Racist And Racialized Media Coverage Of Michael Brown And The Ferguson Demonstrations, Bryan Adamson
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The article explores how the media constructs news, and offers extensive history on the adverse narrative media tropes about Black men since colonial newspapers. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis of news narratives and images, this article demonstrates how Ferguson accounts emphasized Brown’s deviance and chaos and disorder. After offering comparative analysis of White criminality and protest news narratives, the article presses upon the social effects of racist and racialized media narratives. The article examines the controversy through First Amendment free speech, hate crimes, and true threat principles as well as FCC regulation of broadcasting, and media ownership. While explicating the …