{"id":13626,"date":"2010-09-22T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2010-09-22T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T17:20:10","slug":"hypothetical-question-2-gross-negligence-of-press-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13626","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetical Question #2: Gross Negligence Of Press Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to ask you all another hypothetical question. \u00a0All of you lawyers out there will again be especially useful, but it&#8217;s not just a legal topic, so everyone can chime in.<\/p>\n<p>If someone were, hypothetically, to propose a law that would punish the Press for gross negligence of their duty as the news media in a free society, what would the &#8220;elements&#8221; of such a law be?<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s be clear; I&#8217;m not advocating such a law. \u00a0This exercise has nothing whatsoever to do with proposing a law; the law would be unconstitutional anyway.<\/p>\n<p>But if we\u00a0<em>were<\/em>, hypothetically, to try to make such a law, what would be the defining factors of the crime of Press Negligence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to ask you all another hypothetical question. \u00a0All of you lawyers out there will again be especially useful, but it&#8217;s not just a legal topic, so everyone can chime in. If someone were, hypothetically, to propose a law that would punish the Press for gross negligence of their duty as the news media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13775,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions\/13775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}