Newsmen's Privilege: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 275 páginas |
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absolute privilege agency Amendment rights authors BEHRINGER believe BIESTER Branzburg Caldwell Chairman compelling and overriding confidential information confidential sources CONGRESS THE LIBRARY CONYERS CORNWELL CRAMTON crime criminal defendant Department of Justice disclose DRINAN editors Federal court FICHENBERG FISH flow of information free flow free press freedom gathering gentleman going grand jury hearing investigative reporting involved issue jail JENCKS journalists Justice Department Justice Stewart KARP KASTEN MEIER KASTENMEIER law enforcement legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NAVASKY newsman Newsmen's Privilege Act newspaper obtained opinion overriding national interest person priest-penitent privilege privilege law problem protection public interest public's right publication or broadcast published qualified privilege question RAILSBACK reporter's request reveal right to know SEIBERLING Senator CRANSTON shield law sources of information specific statement statute story subcommittee subpena Supreme Court television testify testimonial privilege Thank threat to human tion U.S. REPRESENTATIVE U.S. Supreme Court Whalen bill witness writer York
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Página 134 - The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our own history abundantly attest. The press in its historic connotation comprehends every sort of publication which affords a vehicle of information and opinion.
Página 166 - Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
Página 235 - Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public, that a free press is a condition of a free society.
Página 46 - As chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, I would like to endorse Senator Javits' amendment to the Appropriations measure to reconstitute authorization for printing of the Official Register.
Página 235 - Freedom of discussion, if it would fulfill its historic function in this nation, must embrace all issues about which information is needed or appropriate to enable the members of society to cope with the exigencies of their period.
Página 95 - ... the evil discerned and, equally important, to re-fashion those rules as experience from time to time may dictate. There is also merit in leaving state legislatures free, within First Amendment limits, to fashion their own standards in light of" the conditions and problems with respect to the...
Página 27 - In addition, there is much force in the pragmatic view that the press has at its disposal powerful mechanisms of communication and is far from helpless to protect itself from harassment or substantial harm.
Página 133 - A public spirited person inside government, who is not implicated in any crime, will now be fearful of revealing corruption or other governmental wrong-doing, because he will now know he can subsequently be identified by use of compulsory process. The potential source must, therefore, choose between risking exposure by giving information or avoiding the risk by remaining silent.
Página 260 - At the federal level, Congress has freedom to determine whether a statutory newsman's privilege is necessary and desirable and to fashion standards and rules as narrow or broad as deemed necessary to deal with the evil discerned and, equally important, to refashion those rules as experience from time to time may dictate.
Página 235 - The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.