Opinion | Jessica Levinson: 'We should not allow media corporations to hinder the role of the press by forcing employees to sign NDAs that cover their time as reporters.' - NBCNewsTHINK
The First Amendment leaves open the possibility that private individuals and groups can in fact silence the speech of anyone, including the press.abridging the freedom of speech
That is precisely what happened to Diana Falzone. But Falzone, unlike the celebrity assistant or the person who works for an employer developing a new technology, is a member of the press. She seemingly signed away her write to tell the public what she was reporting on and why. This hurts both Falzone’s right to speak, but perhaps more importantly it hurst the public’s right to hear. And it undermines the media’s primary responsibility of disseminating information.
The public has a right to know whether Fox News killed negative stories about Trump before the presidential election, essentially functioning like an arm of the Trump campaign. A court has already found that theunfavorable to Trump means the organization acted like part of the campaign, instead of like a bona fide news corporation. The public can and should treat information released by a campaign as different from information released by the media.
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