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To: abb

“The informative function asserted by representatives of the organized press in the present cases is also performed by lecturers, political pollsters, novelists, academic researchers, and dramatists.”


MOST interesting-——I would never have considered a novelist or dramatist as being members of the press.

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50 posted on 01/16/2017 3:39:34 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears
MOST interesting-——I would never have considered a novelist or dramatist as being members of the press.

Moviemakers, novelists, screenwriters, artists - all have successfully argued for many, many years that Amendment One covers their activities. I tend to agree.

52 posted on 01/16/2017 3:51:46 PM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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