Will Gawker Kill the First Amendment?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 4, 2015

Amy Gajda, former journalist, now associate professor of law at Tulane University, and the author of The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten a Free Press, sees evidence that the excesses of media outlets like Gawker and TMZ are causing the courts to hedge on protecting journalists.

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