Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle Over Privacy and Press Freedom - Hardcover

by Samantha Barbas (Author)

Newsworthy is a riveting expose of the legal machinations of big media companies like Time, Inc., and how they came, in a sense, to "capture" the courts on the issue of privacy through Time, Inc. v. Hill (1967), in which the Supreme Court for the first time addressed the conflict between privacy and freedom of the press.

Author Biography

Samantha Barbas is Professor of Law at University at Buffalo Law School. She is the author of three books: Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity (2001), The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons (2005), and Laws of Image (Stanford, 2015). She has provided legal commentary for The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.