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Curent issues
Title: Curent issues
Category: History
Details: Words: 970 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Curent issues
US HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
RESEARCH PAPER
On may 21,2001- the supreme court ruled in a case involving the rights of journalists against the personal rights to privacy, that news organizations cannot be punished for broadcasting information that was passed to them unlawfully.
The case began in in 1993, when a conversation between two teacher union officials-Gloria Barnicki and Anthony F. Kane Jr- was intercepted and recorded by an unknown source. One of the officials was using a …showed first 75 words of 970 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 970 total…protected right to air and broadcast any information obtained as long as it wasn’t directly obtained by them, in this case the wiretapping was done by a third part; respectively freeing the media from any charge.
In a recount, the facts and the provisions all went in favor of the media; this comes to show that the battle between civil Rights and Civil Rights is a very controversial issue that is confronted every day.
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