Deserve’s got nothing to do with it
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro: Tabloids don’t deserve the 1st Amendment
Seems dangerous freedoms may create an environment for illegal conduct.
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July 20th, 2011 at 10:32 am
The correct response is: And isn’t it grand that tabloids are still protected by the 1st Amendment! As are all other public speakers!
July 20th, 2011 at 10:57 am
“Deserve’s got nothing to do with it”
July 20th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
The editorial seems to believe that only the proper members of the Fourth Estate should be allowed free speech? That’s a scary attitude.
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
– H. L. Mencken
July 20th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
The worst part of that article? That wasn’t the point! He was decrying the unwillingness to prosecute journalists for actual crimes because they raise a (bogus) 1A defense. His point would be equally applicable if a premeditated murdered raised a second amendment defense, and the headline and conclusion equally inapplicable.
July 20th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Oh, what would you know, Unc? You’re not a real journalist either…
July 20th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
People forget that a good bit of 1A jurisprudence results from people like Larry Flynt.
In the same way that most, but certainly not all, 4A and 5A law involves criminals.
July 21st, 2011 at 5:05 am
“Those who seek to destroy a right first go after the least attractive practitioners of that right”. –Ayn Rand