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PRIVACY ISSUES IN JOURNALISM IN THE 1990S ABSTR

PRIVACY ISSUES IN JOURNALISM IN THE 1990S

For most of the 20th century, certainly through the 1960s, the civil tort of invasion of privacy in various forms expanded the liability of the media under state law. Thereafter, under various constitutional decisions of the Supreme Court expanding the scope of the First Amendment guarantees of a free press, the media enjoyed considerable freedom to investigate and report and/or broadcast events as they saw fit, subject to the continued vitality of certain limitations relating to the protection of personal privacy under state tort law which continued to operate within the penumbra of federal First Amendment jurisprudence.

During the 1990s, some federal and state courts tightened restrictions against particularly egregious invasions of privacy in response to growing public concern that the media may have been accorded too much latitude, notwithstanding their preferred constitutional status under the First Amendment.

Scope of Topic. This research paper deals with the principal legal issues faced by the communications industry or mass media in the 1990s in relation to privacy concerns --i.e. risks of civil law suits for invasions of privacy arising out of newsgathering, news reporting and broadcasting activities.

The focus of this article is on the restrictions placed by state tort law, as modified by federal constitutional (First Amendment) law, on the media's journalistic activities. Outside the scope of the paper are a plethora of court decisions and statutes dealing with other aspects of privacy such as the confidentiality of court records and the anonymity of parties, witnesses and jurors. Also not covered are the privacy exceptions of federal and state freedom of information acts and the provisions of other general and specific privacy laws.

Evolution Before 1990 of the Right of Privacy. In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis defined the right of privacy as "the r...

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