Freedom of Speech faces new obstacles, panel says

[yorkiemommie1]

....Seventy-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed freedom of the press in a landmark case, reporters are increasingly being denied access to information and the courts in the name of national security, a four-person panel of judges and media-law experts said yesterday....


....Also on the panel were Hawaii U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra and UH law professor Jon Van Dyke.

Ezra said Hawaii has not been immune to moves toward more government secrecy. Even before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he said, the state had two laws aimed at limiting freedom of speech and the press.

One of the laws said reporters could not speak to Hawaii prisoners. The second prohibited those who filed an ethics violation with the state from talking about the case publicly. He struck down both of them.
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more at link: http://starbulletin.com/2006/02/25/news/story06.html

ahh... but so many labor under the delusion that we have a 'free press'. when i have mentioned that i read the foreign press for news, i have been asked, 'but do they make us LOOK BAD???' !!!