While government censorship may worry journalists, so should self-censorship. That’s the warning in this month’s WatchDog Opinion, whether self-censorship’s “chilling effect” is driven by fears of attack, legal or physical, or by distortions in what it means to be fair, a “bothsidesism” usually pushed by one-sided players. But the bottom line, the column argues, is that when
Prior to the 20th Century, photographic evidence was seldom available; before the late 19th century it basically wasn’t available at all. So what did courts, including the court of public opinion, do.