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The Freedom of the Press is Guaranteed to Those who Strive for One

By MahaAtal - 09 Mar 2009
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 More importantly, is this point: “As I understand it, the intent of the Free Press clause is to preserve the distinction between professionally produced content and amateur produced content.” This is quite simply untrue. You may disagree with me normatively, but there is absolutely no evidence, historical or legal, that supports your position that the intent of the Free Press clause was to preserve the inequalities you propose. The Free Press clause was meant to ensure that the federal government was not able to circuitously silence men by silencing the machines they spoke by. The idea that the Bill of Rights is intended to “preserve” a distinction which didn’t even exist at the time it was written is just, to be blunt, absurd. Even if you were correct in your assertions more generally, Constitutional times have changed, and we now read the Bill of Rights in the context of the 14th Amendment which ensures that the no personas are denied the “equal protection of the laws,” including presumably, the most important protection of all.

-- DanaDelger - 08 Apr 2009

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Ted: I apologize if I am not as familiar with this information, but what additional privileges do the NYT v. Sullivan cases extend to The Press, which are not extended to ordinary actors?

-- JonathanBonilla - 25 Mar 2009

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