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Download full textOlasky, Marvin N. – 1987
Staggered by some recent libel verdicts, many journalists are neglecting lessons about press freedom learned at great cost during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Journalists then learned that state power over the press, residing in the hands of either censors or judges, leads to a decrease in press freedom. In 1986, though, many media…
Descriptors: Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Journalism, Journalism History
