{"id":2064,"date":"2014-03-10T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T01:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/10\/embracing-the-power-of-public-debate\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:03:07","slug":"embracing-the-power-of-public-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/embracing-the-power-of-public-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing the power of public debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10414\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/justice-scales-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10414\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10414 lazyload\" alt=\"justice-scales-image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/justice-scales-image.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 222px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 222\/222;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided <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 <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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided <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 <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","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","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\/2064","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=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}