Word: gag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simants was ultimately sentenced to death, but several news organizations pressed their appeal because gag orders have been proliferating. Last week, in a surprisingly firm 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court nearly outlawed them...
Chief Justice Warren Burger declared that the court was not imposing an "absolute prohibition" on gag rules, but he added that "the barriers to prior restraint remain high." In the Nebraska case, he ruled, "this prohibition regarding 'implicative' information is too vague and too broad." Moreover, some of the banned information had been revealed in a public hearing and "what transpired there could not be subject to prior restraint" under any circumstances.* Where the banned information is not on the public record, however, Burger refused to "rule out the possibility [that an extraordinary] threat to fair trial rights...
Rosenthal was smiling pleasantly. He looked relaxed and was obviously trying to put his younger visitor at ease, as he launched into one of his favorite topics, the freedom of the press. He perceives the recent gag orders that prohibit the press from reporting on certain trials, or aspects of them, as serious threats to the publication of the truth...
...where the program parodies merely fail, Tunnelvision's lampoons of TV commercials are real garbage, working in every crotch/ass joke and toilet gag available. Does an ad for "Columbia School of Proctology" tickle you? How about a "National Faggot Shoot"? (There's that word again; another goober please...
...good compromise. "Before a judge could enter a restrictive order, he should be made to hold a hearing to explore all other possibilities [such as a change of venue]. At this hearing, not only the defense and prosecution but also the press could be heard on a proposed gag rule." Some answer with guidelines obviously is needed. Currently the third most litigated free-speech issue-after obscenity and libel-is the question of gag rules...