TY  - GEN
T1  - Literary journalism on trial : Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
T2  - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
A1  - Forde, Kathy Roberts
LA  - English
PP  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn794701573
AB  - In November 1984, Jeffrey Masson filed a libel suit against writer Janet Malcolm and the 'New Yorker', claiming that Malcolm had intentionally misquoted him in a profile she wrote for the magazine about his former career as a Freud scholar and administrator of the Freud archives. Over the next twelve years the case moved up and down the federal judicial ladder, at one point reaching the U.S. Supreme Court, as lawyers and judges wrestled with questions about the representation of truth in journalism and, by extension, the limits of First Amendment protections of free speech. Had a successful Freudian scholar actually called himself an intellectual gigolo and the greatest analyst who ever lived? Or had a respected writer for the 'New Yorker' knowingly placed false, self-damning words in her subject's mouth? 'In Literary Journalism on Trial,' Kathy Roberts Forde explores the implications of Masson v. 'New Yorker' in the context of the history of American journalism. She shows how the case represents a watershed moment in a long debate between the advocates of traditional and literary journalism and explains how it reflects a significant intellectual project of the period: the postmodern critique of objectivity, with its insistence on the instability of language and rejection of unitary truth in human affairs. The case, Forde argues, helped widen the perceived divide between ideas of literary and traditional journalism and forced the resolution of these conflicting conceptions of truth in the constitutional arena of libel law. By embracing traditional journalism's emphasis on fact and objectivity and rejecting a broader understanding of truth, the Supreme Court turned away from the First Amendment theory articulated in previous rulings, opting to value less the free, uninhibited interchange of ideas necessary to democracy and more the trustworthiness of public expression. The Court s decision in this case thus had implications that reached beyond the legal realm to the values and norms expressed in the triangular relationship between American democracy, First Amendment principles, and the press.
OP  - 288
NO  - OldControl:muse9781613760918.
CN  - KF228.M3747 F67 2008
SN  - 9781613760918
SN  - 1613760914
SN  - 9781558496538
SN  - 155849653X
SN  - 9781558496521
SN  - 1558496521
KW  - Malcolm, Janet : Trials, litigation, etc.
KW  - Masson, J. Moussaieff : (Jeffrey Moussaieff), : 1941- : Trials, litigation, etc.
KW  - Malcolm, Janet
KW  - Masson, J. Moussaieff : (Jeffrey Moussaieff), : 1941-
KW  - Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff.
KW  - New Yorker.
KW  - Journalism : Objectivity : United States.
KW  - Interviewing in journalism : United States.
KW  - Trials (Libel) : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Presse : Objectivité : États-Unis.
KW  - Interviews : États-Unis.
KW  - Procès (Diffamation) : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Interviewing in journalism
KW  - Journalism : Objectivity
KW  - Trials (Libel)
KW  - United States
KW  - Klage
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - "Multi-User"
KW  - Literary journalism
KW  - History
KW  - Trials, litigation, etc.
KW  - Trial and arbitral proceedings.
KW  - Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
ER  -