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Qualified Intimacy, Celebrity, And The Case For A Newsgathering Privilege, Rodney A. Smolla
Qualified Intimacy, Celebrity, And The Case For A Newsgathering Privilege, Rodney A. Smolla
University of Richmond Law Review
In this symposium issue Robert Nagel, Diane Zimmerman, Robert O'Neil, and Erwin Chemerinsky explore the intersection of privacy and freedom of the press. In his fascinating inquiry into privacy and celebrity in modern American life, Robert Nagel demonstrates the connection between the American public's strong commitment to privacy and its simultaneous passion for robust protection of freedom of speech. Among his most important insights is the exposure of "pseudo-intimacy" as a principal currency of contemporary celebrity status. Diane Zimmerman, Robert O'Neil, and Erwin Chemerinsky all investigate the legal principles that ought to surround aggressive and surreptitious newsgathering techniques, each in …
I Spy: The Newsgatherer Under Cover, Diane Leenheer Zimmerman
I Spy: The Newsgatherer Under Cover, Diane Leenheer Zimmerman
University of Richmond Law Review
Hysteria about the press, like the flu, breaks out periodically, and when it does, few of us are better off for having lived through the experience. We are currently on what I sincerely hope will prove to be the receding edge of the latest epidemic ofpublic outrage about the press, and, as usual, the frenzied state has not brought out the best in either the media or its critics.