Laws designed to protect reporters from revealing their sources are referred to as
A) Blue Laws.
B) Canons of Ethics.
C) Shield Laws.
D) Safe Laws.
E) Time Laws.
Question -2-Those states that have passed shield laws did so in order to do which of the following?
A) to ensure due process for defendants in criminal cases
B) to protect the confidentiality of reporters' sources
C) to provide protection for those authorities that obtained search warrants under the good faith doctrine
D) to exempt states from being sued by citizens of other states
E) to provide unbiased reporting
Question -3-In the Caldwell case the Supreme Court ruled that
A) reporters have the constitutional right to protect their sources.
B) reporters do not have the constitutional right to protect their sources.
C) gag rules do not violate the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of the press.
D) television cameras may be constitutionally barred from the courtroom.
E) none of the above.
Question -4-In its 1972 decision in the Caldwell case, the Supreme Court ruled that
A) reporters have a constitutional right to protect their sources.
B) the First Amendment does not exempt news reporters from appearing and testifying before state and federal grand juries.
C) the investigation by a grand jury of possible crime is of greater importance to the public than the protection of news sources.
D) b and c.
E) none of the above.
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