Reporter's Privilege; Magazines

Host Alex S. Jones discusses reporter's privilege on the 25th anniversary of Branzburg v. Hayes, a Supreme Court ruling against it, with Earl Caldwell, a former reporter for The New York Times involved in the case, James Goodale, the former General Counsel for The Times, Jane Kirtley, Executive Director of the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and David Kidwell, a Miami Herald journalist facing prison for refusing to testify in a murder trial he covered; and the move by advertisers for "early warning" about controversial content in magazines with Milton Glaser of New York magazine, Bruce Knecht of The Wall Street Journal, Leo Bogart, author of Commercial Culture: The Media System and the Public Interest, and Elise O'Shaughnessy, Executive Editor of Vanity Fair.


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