{"id":2027,"date":"2014-03-10T21:52:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T01:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/10\/embracing-public-debate\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:02:59","slug":"embracing-public-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/embracing-public-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing power of public debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided\u00a0<i>New York Times v. Sullivan<\/i>. The decision was extraordinary because it changed fundamentally the way the press and the people could criticize public officials. In an op-ed for the\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/article\/20140309\/OPINION0101\/303090005\/Alabama-Voices-Montgomery-libel-case-led-major-change?nclick_check=1\">Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser<\/a><\/b>, Furman communication studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke writes that is a case we should remember, if only to understand why our system of government can at times be so exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>Cover image courtesy of shutterstock.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided\u00a0New York Times v. Sullivan. The decision was extraordinary because it changed fundamentally the way the press and the people could criticize public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}