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Threats to the press during wartime. The Sedition Act of 1798 -- President Abraham Lincoln's executive order, 1864 -- President Woodrow Wilson's letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman, 1917 -- The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 -- The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Schenck v. United States, 1919 -- President Franklin Roosevelt's executive order 8985, 1941 -- The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in New York times v. United States, 1971 -- Ann Cooper's speech on the press and the war on terrorism, 2004 -- Criticizing the press as sensational. James Fenimore Cooper's "On the American press," 1838 -- Robert Ellis Thompson's "The age of newspapers," 1883 -- Brandeis and Warren's "The right to privacy," 1890 -- Excerpts from President Theodore Roosevelt's muck-rake address, 1906 -- James Edward Rogers's "The American newspaper," 1909 -- President Harry Truman's letter to Dean Acheson, 1955 -- Representative Maurice Hinchey's statement on coverage of President Bill Clinton, 1998 -- Senator James Inhofe's statement about climate change alarmism, 2006 -- Legal attacks on the press. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in New York times v. Sullivan, 1964 -- The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. -- The memorandum of decision in the case of Cochran v. New York Post Holdings, Inc, and Peyser, 1998 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals decision in Food Lion, Inc. v. Capital Cities/ABC, 1999 -- Brief for the United States in Judith Miller v. United States, 2005 -- The motion for injunction in the case of Terry Bollea v. Gawker Media, 2012 -- The report of the Department of Justice's office of professional responsibility on subpoenas of Associated Press phone records, 2014 -- Statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists on the arrest of Julian Assange, 2019 -- Lawsuits filed by Donald Trump campaign against news organizations, 2020 -- Physical attacks on journalists. Benjamin Franklin's account of the supremest court of judicature, 1789 -- The last speech of abolitionist publisher Elijah Lovejoy, 1837 -- Story and editorial from Canton (OH) daily news on their murdered editor, 1926 -- Excerpts from the Arizona project about slain journalist Don Bolles, 1977 -- Statement from the Los Angeles Police Department on the murder of a citizen journalist, 2002 -- Stories compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists regarding Chauncey Bailey, 2007 -- Editorial published in the Capital gazette after a shooting at their newsroom, 2018 -- President Donald Trump's statement on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, 2018 -- Attacks on perceived media bias. Editorial in The Atlantic monthly, 1908 -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's press conference, 1935 -- Statement from Representative Lamar Smith on media bias, 2008 -- Testimony to the U.S. House from Dan Gainor, 2009 -- Statement from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on climate change, 2013 -- Paper by Jackie Calmes, "They don't give a damn about governing," 2015 -- Willnat, Weaver, and Wilhoit on The American journalist in the digital age, 2017 -- Tweets about Fox News and the Democratic National Convention, 2019 -- Aspirational critiques. Walter Lippman's "Journalism and the higher law," 1920 -- Hutchins Commission report on freedom of the press, 1947 -- Kerner Commission report on "The news media and the disorders," 1968 -- Testimony on media coverage of the 2000 election, 2001 -- Interview with reporters on civil rights coverage, 2004 -- Testimony on the future of journalism, 2009 -- Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson, reconstruction of American journalism, 2009 -- Union of Concerned Scientists' report on coverage of climate science, 2014 -- Politicians attacking the press. President George Washington's letter on the press, 1793 -- President Thomas Jefferson's letters on newspapers, 1803 and 1807 -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's press conference, 1938 -- Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's reply to Edward R. Murrow, 1954 -- President John F. Kennedy's address on the president and the press, 1961 -- President Richard Nixon's news conference on tape recordings, 1973 -- President Barack Obama's remarks on polarized politics, 2016 -- Attacks in the era of social media and fake news. President Donald Trump's tweets on "fake news," 2016-2020 -- Statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists about the Trump presidency, 2016 -- President Donald Trump's "Make America great again" rally in Youngstown, Ohio, 2017 -- Opposition to the SESTA-FOSTA Act, 2017 -- The Journalist Protection Act, 2018 -- Senator Jeff Flake's statement on "truth and democracy," 2018 -- Coordinated editorials condemning President Trump, 2018 -- Department of Justice's announcement of charges against Cesar Sayoc, 2018 -- Announcements of hiring and removal of press secretary Stephanie Grisham, 2019-2020 -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's statement about an NPR reporter, 2020. |
