JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Neil Sheehan, The Chicago Defender, Ernie Pyle
6 Aug 2020
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State laws protecting journalists from having to testify in court and divulge sources under certain circumstances, but there is currently no federal shield law in place hoped to bring vietnam war to an end. A judicial order that stops a media outlet from publishing a story or image. Pentagon papers became such an important case. Wiki leaks / ny times have some similarities with pentagon papers. An author daniel ellsberg, former marine and rand corporation employee, Gave ny times reporter neil sheehan nearly 7000 pages from the report, June 13 1971 ny times started publishing. June 14 president nixon"s attorney general asked the times to stop publishing. June 15 the third installment was published and the justice department obtained a. Ellsberg rejected by three major broadcast networks. The washington post obtains a copy, but lawyers advise against publishing. June 18 the post published its first pentagon paper"s story. June 19 the government obtained a restraining order against the post.
