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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It is never legal for a public school to censor a student publication just because its contents will be controversial or will offend the reader, so students should not shy away from writing about political and social issues that concern them. However, they should anticipate the reaction people will have.
Copyright holders don’t forsake ownership of their work simply because it's online. Journalists can, and do, get into legal trouble for copying and pasting other people’s work – and merely giving credit to the site in no way counts as a form of consent.
The Hazelwood Court said that “ungrammatical, poorly written, inadequately researched” stories could be censored without offending the First Amendment. People have been known to sneak harmful material into publications without the editor's knowlege. A trusted student editor should always lay eyes on every page before it goes to a final print.
The Constitution guarantees a free press, which can be expanded to include all news media - TV, radio, the web, etc. Primarily, press freedom means the news media are not subject to censorship by the government.
A shield law is a law that gives reporters some means of protection against being forced to disclose confidential information or sources in state court.
The Supreme Court has employed the First Amendment to strike down state laws which threatened to punish the press for reporting the names of rape victims, the names of alleged juvenile offenders, and information regarding confidential judicial misconduct hearings.
The court also struck down a law which made it a crime for a newspaper to carry an election day editorial urging voters to support a proposal on the ballot.
Since the mass shooting at Colorado’s Columbine High School, courts have been doubly hesitant to second-guess school disciplinary decisions when student writings hint at violence against members of the school community.
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