Rights of access and reply to the media in the United States today.

In Access to the Press--A of recent origin First Amendment Right, I pointed on the outside what I believed was a contradiction in American constitutional law: "While we house expression once it has advance to the fore our law is indifferent to creating opportunities for expression." (1) I attributed this indifference to what I contemplation was a romantic conception of the status of freedom of expression in the United States. This was that there is a self-executing marketplace of ideas that is freely accessible for all speakers and all ideas. The contradiction I spoke of thirty years ago between protecting ideas one time communicated and ...