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Newsworthy - The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom (Hardcover)
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Newsworthy - The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom (Hardcover)
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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.
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