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CS 444V Freedom of the Press (3)
Course addresses the reporting of current events both in print and in the electronic press and its impact on the decision-making of citizens, with particular attention to First-Amendment issues. Topics include journalistic ethics and excesses, censorship and prior restraint, constitutional protections and constraints, obscenity, libel, and differences in the functionings of the press at home and abroad.
