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Volume 71 Autummn 2008 Number 4

The Court of Public Opinion: The Practice and Ethics of Trying Cases in the Media

Kathryn Webb Bradley
Special Editors

Introduction

Kathryn Webb Bradley i

Back to the Future—Questions for the News Media from the Past

Loren Ghiglione 1

Trial by Media: The Betrayal of the First Amendment's Purpose

Gavin Phillipson 15

Trying Cases in the Media: A Comparative Overview

Giorgio Resta 31

The Prosecutor and the Press: Lessons (Not) Learned from the Mike Nifong Debacle

R. Michael Cassidy 67

Race to Judgment: Stereotyping Media and Criminal Defendants

Robert M. Entman, Kimberly A. Gross 93

How Noninstitutionalized Media Change the Relationship Between the Public and Media Coverage of Trials

Marcy Wheeler 135

The Duke Lacrosse Case and the Blogosphere

KC Johnson 155

Sheppard V. Maxwell Revisted—Do the Traditional Rules Work for Nontraditional Media

Gary A. Hengstler 171

The Circus Comes to Town: The Media and High-Profile Trials

David A. Sellers 181

Moving Beyond Media Feast and Frenzy: Imagining Possibilities for Hyper-Resilience Arising from Scandalous Organizational Crisis

Ronald L. Dufresne, Judith A. Clair 201