Will Tabloid Journalism Ruin the First Amendment for the Rest of Us?

Authors

• Rodney A. Smolla, University of Richmond - School of Law

Abstract

Imagine that we set out to classify news organizations as falling into one of two Platonic "idealized forms," the "serious" journalists on the one hand, and the "tabloid" journalists on the other. In the pursuit of this happy exercise we might attempt to list the attributes that we tend to associate with each of these idealized forms. ...

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1998

Recommended Citation

Rodney A. Smolla, Will Tabloid Journalism Ruin the First Amendment for the Rest of Us?, 9 DePaul J. Arts & Ent. L. 1 (1998).