Newsworthy : the Supreme Court battle over privacy and press freedom / Samantha Barbas.
Barbas, Samantha, author.
2017
KF228.T549 B37 2017eb
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Title Newsworthy : the Supreme Court battle over privacy and press freedom / Samantha Barbas.
Author Barbas, Samantha, author.
ISBN 9781503600836 (electronic book)
9780804797108
Published Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 338 pages)
Call Number KF228.T549 B37 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.7308/58
Summary "In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international media coverage. Public interest eventually died out, and the Hills went back to their ordinary, obscure lives. Until, a few years later, the Hills were once again unwillingly thrust into the spotlight by the media--with a best-selling novel loosely based on their ordeal, a play, a big-budget Hollywood adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart, and an article in Life magazine. Newsworthy is the story of their story, the media firestorm that ensued, and their legal fight to end unwanted, embarrassing, distorted public exposure that ended in personal tragedy. This story led to an important 1967 Supreme Court decision--Time, Inc. v. Hill--that still influences our approach to privacy and freedom of the press. Newsworthy draws on personal interviews, unexplored legal records, and archival material, including the papers and correspondence of Richard Nixon (who, prior to his presidency, was a Wall Street lawyer and argued the Hill family's case before the Supreme Court), Leonard Garment, Joseph Hayes, Earl Warren, Hugo Black, William Douglas, and Abe Fortas. Samantha Barbas explores the legal, cultural, and political wars waged around this seminal privacy and First Amendment case. This is a story of how American law and culture struggled to define and reconcile the right of privacy and the rights of the press at a critical point in history--when the news media were at the peak of their authority and when cultural and political exigencies pushed free expression rights to the forefront of social debate. Newsworthy weaves together a fascinating account of the rise of big media in America and the public's complex, ongoing love-hate affair with the press"--Provided by publisher.
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Part I. The desperate hours. The Whitemarsh incident
Fact into fiction
The article
Part II. Hill v. Hayes. The lawsuit
Privacy
Freedom of the press
Suing the press
Maneuvers
The trial
Part III. Privacy and freedom of the press. The privacy panic
Appeals
Griswold
Nixon
Part IV. Time, Inc. v. Hill. At the court
Decisions
January 9, 1967
The aftermath.

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