From the course: CIPP/US Cert Prep: 3 Government and Court Access to Information
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News Media Privacy
From the course: CIPP/US Cert Prep: 3 Government and Court Access to Information
News Media Privacy
- [Instructor] Members of the news media have always had special protections granted to them under the Constitution and federal and state laws. The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press, designed to prevent the government from interfering with the operation of the media. The news media also has a tradition of protecting its sources to preserve the integrity of their reporting. In 1971, a demonstration took place at Stanford University where several police officers were injured. Reporters from the university's student newspaper, "The Stanford Daily," were present to cover the protest, and they took photographs. The local district attorney obtained a search warrant for all of those photographs, leading to a legal dispute that worked its way all the way up to the United States Supreme Court. In the case, known as Zurcher versus "Stanford Daily," the newspaper argued that the search violated their constitutional rights.…
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