Although much is known about how governments and major media organizations stand on some world press problems, some important actors in the debate--small- and medium-size newspapers in the United States--have been ignored. The editors of these newspapers are gatekeepers who, like their counterparts on large elite newspapers, play a fundamental…

The mechanics of McCarthyism are explained via a detailed case study of Alex Novikoff who was fired from the University of Vermont in 1953 after taking the Fifth Amendment in connection with FBI and Congressional investigations of his earlier membership in Communist groups at Brooklyn College. Despite McCarthy's stated commitment to academic…

A chronology of the events in a 1977-1978 series of teacher/school board/administrator conflicts in Warsaw, Indiana, is presented in this paper. Newspaper stories, editorials, letters, memoranda, interview statements, legal documents, and minutes of various meetings are cited in accounts of numerous individual events. The events reported involve…

Two authors of a high school-level speech communication textbook examine reactions from individuals and committees concerned with textbook adoption and create a new scenario depicting the way they would have liked to have responded to events. (NKA)

Provides the statements of the representatives of five member countries of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Control (CoCom) regarding the dissemination of government-sponsored research. Includes textual statements from representatives of the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, and the United States. (TW)

Describes a technique for defusing protests against books assigned as classroom reading. Demonstrates how to justify a modern book by comparing it to books of the past. (RBW)

It is argued that universities are pervasively and necessarily engaged in regulation of speech, which complicates many existing claims about hate speech codes on campus. The ultimate test is whether the restriction on speech is a legitimate part of the institution's mission, commitment to liberal education. (MSE)

Examines questions of Internet regulation by comparison with other forms of media and regulations applying to them. Discusses legal issues of free speech, content regulation, intellectual property rights, and commercial law. Concludes that in law-enforcement terms, the Internet is different from mass media and cannot be regulated easily. (DSK)

Addresses the issue of children's human rights in relation to the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child that seeks to give priority to children in the adoption of individual countries' polices. Focuses on U.S. policies concerning children's' rights and introduces two different views of the impact. (CMK)

This paper reviews court decisions and articles that deal with academic freedom issues in higher education, including tenure, promotion, and post-tenure review. It discusses the Supreme Court decisions in Wieman v. Updegraff (1952), which struck down an Oklahoma loyalty oath; Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1957), which precluded an investigation into…

As an appropriate example of an international institution of higher education, few qualify more than the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. (Author)

In celebration of the introduction of printing into England by William Caxton in 1476, the author considered the promise and threat of free speech and the printed word. (Author/RK)

A look at a unique case applying the rules of freedom of expression for mass media in Sweden. (HB)

Recommends establishing a policy for book selection based on instruction goals as a means of dealing with censorship. (RB)

Discusses the rationale for the resolution passed by the American Bar Association in 1937 discouraging courtroom photography, and presents recent opinions by judges, attourneys, and photojournalists involving the use of cameras. (RB)