How Newspaper Editors Feel about Confidential Sources in Wake of Cohen v. Cowles

Newspaper Research Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 88-97

  Davis, Charles N ^a   Ross, Susan D ^b   Gates, Paul H ^c  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79959671194     PISSN: 07395329     EISSN: 23764791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/073953299601700307     Document Type: Article

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7. See. e.g. Martin Garbus, The Big Chill on Free Speech. Newsday, July 4, 1991 , p. 63 (The Supreme Court concluded, in effect, that the right to publish information that could affect the outcome of an election is less important than the right of a confidential source to punish the media for revealing his identity.)
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17. See, e.g., K. Tim Wulfmeyer, Use of Anonymous Sources, Brian S. Brooks, George Kennedy, Daryl Moen and Don Ranly, News Reporting and Writing. New York: S1. Martin Press, 1980, pp. 401-402.
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19. Robert E. Drechsel, Media Ethics and Media Law: The Transformation of Moral Obligation into Legal Principle. Notre Dame Journal of Legal Ethics & Public Policy , 1992, p. 5
20. Patrick M. Garry , The Trouble with Confidential Sources: A criticism of the Supreme Court’s Interest-Group View of the First Amendment in Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. Hastings Comm. & Ent. Law Journal, 1992, p. 403
21. Kyu Ho Youm and Harry W. Stonecipher, The LegalBounds of Confidentiality Promises: Promissory Estoppeland the First Amendment. Fed. Comm. Law Journal, 1992, p. 63
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23. Susan S. Greenebaum, Comment: Confidentiality Agreements Between the Press and its Sources: Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law, 1992, p. 243.