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

This is the event I mentioned in the last class discussion around whether there is an argument to be made that some types of expression or activity should be regulated or banned because it functions like cultural poison - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/05/27/elliot-rodgers-ucsb-massacre-sexual-assaults-and-campus-speech-codes/

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