Discuss the cases of Myron Farber and Judith Miller to illustrate how the courts have ruled on confidentiality of sources.
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Farber was sent to jail for contempt of court for refusing to show his notes from sources to a judge to be given to the defense team in the case. The U.S. Supreme Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Farber had to show his notes to the defense.?Miller spent 85 days in jail for refusing to give prosecutors information about who in the Bush administration had told her that a woman was in fact a CIA officer.?There is no federal shield law that protects journalists.
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a. collectivism b. distrust of government c. societal responsibility to care for all d. unwillingness to help those who deserve it
Your decision to organize a protest of a planned increase in the interest rates on federal student loans is an example of a high level of __________.
A. social effort B. political efficacy C. political facilitation D. social efficacy
What distinguishes generational effects from period effects?
a. Generational effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of the younger generations of a population; period effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of all generations in a population. b. Generational effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of all generations in a population; period effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of the younger generations of a population. c. Generational effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of people as they age; period effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of all generations in a population d. Generational effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of the younger generations of a population; period effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of people as they age. e. Generational effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of people as they move from life-cycle role to life-cycle role; period effects exert an influence on the attitudes and beliefs of people as they age.
The Magna Carta is associated with
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