Journalists, Shield Laws and the First Amendment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journalists, Shield Laws and the First Amendment write by Ulan C. Pracene. This book was released on 2005. Journalists, Shield Laws and the First Amendment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Absent a statutory or constitutional recognition of journalistic privilege, a reporter may be compelled to testify in legal, administrative, or other governmental proceedings. To date, thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have recognised a journalists' privilege through enactment of press 'shield laws', which protect the relationship between reporters, their source, and sometimes, the information that may be communicated in that relationship. The journalists' privilege is distinct from other recognised privileges, in that the privilege vests only with the journalist, not with the source of the information. This book provides an overview of general trends among the states individual statutes. It also presents the full text of the state shield statutes and the First Amendment.
Professionalization and the Narrative of Shield Laws
Professionalization and the Narrative of Shield Laws - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Professionalization and the Narrative of Shield Laws write by David Stanley Allen. This book was released on 1992. Professionalization and the Narrative of Shield Laws available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Theory of Shield Laws
A Theory of Shield Laws - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Theory of Shield Laws write by Dean C. Smith. This book was released on 2013. A Theory of Shield Laws available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this history of debate over journalists¿ confidential sources, starting in 1894, Smith employs contemporary theories of constitutional interpretation to weave a surprising narrative melding legislature-made statutory law and court-made constitutional law. Working under the banner of ¿popular constitutionalism,¿ Smith tests Michael Gerhardt¿s theory of non-judicial precedents to illuminate the role journalists and press advocates played in shaping the path of constitutional law and giving voice to deeply felt First Amendment values. Along the way, the author corrects the historical record in important ways, including recasting events that led to the nation¿s first shield law in 1896.
Shield Legislation for Journalists
Shield Legislation for Journalists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shield Legislation for Journalists write by University of Iowa. School of Journalism. This book was released on 1973. Shield Legislation for Journalists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
State of War
State of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State of War write by James Risen. This book was released on 2006-01-05. State of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies a secret history -- a series of hidden events that makes a mockery of current debate. This hidden history involves domestic spying, abuses of power, and outrageous operations. It includes a CIA that became caught in a political cross fire that it could not withstand, and what it did to respond. It includes a Defense Department that made its own foreign policy, even against the wishes of the commander in chief. It features a president who created a sphere of deniability in which his top aides were briefed on matters of the utmost sensitivity -- but the president was carefully kept in ignorance. State of War reveals this hidden history for the first time, including scandals that will redefine the Bush presidency. James Risen has covered national security for The New York Times for years. Based on extraordinary sources from top to bottom in Washington and around the world, drawn from dozens of interviews with key figures in the national security community, this book exposes an explosive chain of events: Contrary to law, and with little oversight, the National Security Administration has been engaged in a massive domestic spying program. On such sensitive issues as the use of torture, the administration created a zone of deniability: the president's top advisors were briefed, but the president himself was not. The United States actually gave nuclear-bomb designs to Iran. The CIA had overwhelming evidence that Iraq had no nuclear weapons programs during the run-up to the Iraq war. They kept that information to themselves and didn't tell the president. While the United States has refused to lift a finger, Afghanistan has become a narco-state, supplying 87 percent of the heroin sold on the global market. These are just a few of the stories told in State of War. Beyond these shocking specifics, Risen describes troubling patterns: Truth-seekers within the CIA were fired or ignored. Long-standing rules were trampled. Assassination squads were trained; war crimes were proposed. Yet for all the aggressiveness of America's spies, a blind eye was turned toward crucial links between al Qaeda and Saudi Arabia, among other sensitive topics. Not since the revelations of CIA and FBI abuses in the 1970s have so many scandals in the intelligence community come to light. More broadly, Risen's secret history shows how power really works in George W. Bush's presidency.
