Course Description

This course examines legal issues and court cases involving the media in the United States.

Some of the topics examined include: the First Amendment, libel, privacy, protection of news sources, obscenity, advertising, access to public records and meetings, and copyright.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

ok - I was about 75% accurate in my telling of the "fig leaf" campaign. I got the basic theme correct - some religious figure decided nudes were a threat to the moral/social fabric and fixed it with a fig leaf. This is a fascinating story of early censorship. http://www.museumsecrets.tv/dossier.php?o=95

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