Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!tamuts!n357cw From: n357cw@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Evidence (was Re: Musing on Constitutionality) Message-ID: <8418@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 20 Sep 90 23:59:01 GMT References: <8306@helios.TAMU.EDU> <26938:Sep1814:48:2390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <4572@qip.UUCP> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 16 In article <4572@qip.UUCP> john@qip.UUCP (John Moore) writes: >In article <26938:Sep1814:48:2390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >][Suppose you were to publish the same information in an advertisement in >][a national newspaper. When that advertisement would be distributed >][throughout the world, would the Secret Service be able to confiscate >][each newspaper in which that particular advertisement resides? >The newspaper would not publish the list in the first place. Electronic media >is special in that frequently there is no editor. >-- Well, John, I seem to remember in my history classes (I'm too young to have actually lived it) about the so called ``Pentagon Papers'' being printed in the papers.. I do believe that these papers wereb't for the public's eyes, and yet the editor in this instance chose to go with the story.. (This is not a FLAME! -- I don't like flame wars..)