A Washington, D.C. federal appeals court judge spent a considerable number of pages in a Friday dissent rubbishing a U.S. Supreme Court case that is the pillar of the modern press press: New York Times v. Sullivan. While so doing, he slammed The New York Times itself, The Washington Post, and other major publications in the current media age for becoming “virtual Democratic Party broadsheets.”
The harsh words by the judge, Laurence Silberman, were part of a verbose dictum asserting that the press had become so powerful that its “bias” was “distort[ing] the marketplace” of ideas necessary for American democracy to function.
Implicit in Silberman’s logic is the idea that the Supreme Court artificially and unconstitutionally gave the press too much power during the civil rights era of the mid-1960s — an era Silberman says has long passed into history and which bears little to no resemblance to modern America.
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A Washington, D.C. federal appeals court judge spent a considerable number of pages in a Friday dissent rubbishing a U.S. Supreme Court case that is the pillar of the modern press press: New York Times v. Sullivan. While so doing, he slammed The New York Times itself, The Washington Post, and other major publications in the current media age for becoming “virtual Democratic Party broadsheets.”
The harsh words by the judge, Laurence Silberman, were part of a verbose dictum asserting that the press had become so powerful that its “bias” was “distort[ing] the marketplace” of ideas necessary for American democracy to function.
Implicit in Silberman’s logic is the idea that the Supreme Court artificially and unconstitutionally gave the press too much power during the civil rights era of the mid-1960s — an era Silberman says has long passed into history and which bears little to no resemblance to modern America.
[Read more at *Law & Crime*](https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/reagan-appointed-circuit-judge-issues-scathing-dissent-calling-nyt-and-wapo-democratic-party-broadsheets-praising-fox-news)
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