Competing Rights

Competing Rights

Hans Linde, in
The Center Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 19791, Box
4068, Santa ~arbara, Calif. 93103.
The continuing conflict between the courts and the news media is often said to result from two conflicting constitutional rights-the First Amendment right of the press to be free to publish without censorship and to protect its news sources and the Sixth Amendment right of an accused person to a fair trial.
This is a fallacy; these two constitutional rights are not in conflict at all, argues Oregon...

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