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When courtrooms peer into newsrooms, watch out

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By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center

Judges judge. Prosecutors prosecute. And journalists, well, they do what journalists should do – get the news and report it, good and bad.

Except for falling just short of a triple hit of alliteration, it's quite an elegant arrangement – with a bit of constitutional and First Amendment symmetry for good measure.

But consider the raft of instances lately in which judges or prosecutors have decided to step…

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