Panel III: The Future of the Press and Privacy

摘要

Intimate details about the sexual affairs, orientations and proclivities of politicians. Decades-old misdeeds dredged up from a now-famous person's past. Images of the dead and dying, captured at the scene of a terrorist attack. Clips from a celebrity's stolen sex tape.Which, if any, of these should the press publish?The question, of course, is anything but new. The longstanding tension in the United States between personal privacy and press freedom was seminally articulated more than 120 years ago by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis in their classic Harvard Law Review article, The Right to Privacy."