Knight's Paradigm and Scholastic Press Freedom [electronic resource] / Tom Dickson.
A study investigated whether scholastic journalism educators agree on definitions of prior review and prior restraint. A total of 83 officers or directors of local, state, or national scholastic journalism organizations, including the membership list of the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Asso...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | A study investigated whether scholastic journalism educators agree on definitions of prior review and prior restraint. A total of 83 officers or directors of local, state, or national scholastic journalism organizations, including the membership list of the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, completed surveys regarding prior review and prior restraint. Consensus definitions of prior review and prior restraint based upon responses to the survey emerged--prior review is reading newspaper copy before publication by a school employee; and prior restraint is any prohibition against publication made by the adviser, the principal, or any other school employee. Results also indicated that: (1) advisers should correct misspellings and factual errors in copy but should not stop negative stories about the school or stories that may be harmful but not libelous, obscene, or disruptive; (2) advisers should not change the wording of controversial articles or remove them from the newspaper; and (3) respondents felt that the adviser was not ultimately responsible for the content of the newspaper. Findings suggest that the respondents seemed to support the Supreme Court's goal for high standards (as reflected in the "Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier" decision), but they felt the Court went too far in "Hazelwood" in the type of restrictions that would be allowed on a variety of constitutionally protected speech. Findings also suggest that journalism educators should attempt to think of the adviser's role as one that transcends school official, managing editor, and teacher. (Contains 15 references and 5 notes.) (RS) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED388983. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (78th, Washington, DC, August 9-12, 1995). |
| Physical Description: | 28 p. |