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changing relationship between cameras and the courts

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Date Issued:
1998
Summary:
The electronic media have a close and evolving relationship with the courtrooms and the courtroom proceedings of the United States. The issues that surround media coverage of court cases and the increasing use of videotaped material, as evidence is the focus of this thesis. The electronic media's interest in legal matters has opened a debate over the principles a free press and a fair trial. This work researches the history of cameras in the courtroom and discusses how trials have become a viable and profitable form of entertainment. It will cite cases and studies that provide evidence as to the negative and positive effects that cameras have on trial participants and discuss how those who work in the law field view this information. Using the historical background of cameras in the courtroom, and examining some recent cases that have been heavily publicized, this thesis will demonstrate how the relationship between the electronic media and the courtroom has become an on-going occurrence which has made them virtually inseparable.
Title: The changing relationship between cameras and the courts.
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Name(s): Stewart, Ruthie Elizabeth Reeves.
Florida Atlantic University, Digital Library
Fejes, Fred A., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1998
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 78 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The electronic media have a close and evolving relationship with the courtrooms and the courtroom proceedings of the United States. The issues that surround media coverage of court cases and the increasing use of videotaped material, as evidence is the focus of this thesis. The electronic media's interest in legal matters has opened a debate over the principles a free press and a fair trial. This work researches the history of cameras in the courtroom and discusses how trials have become a viable and profitable form of entertainment. It will cite cases and studies that provide evidence as to the negative and positive effects that cameras have on trial participants and discuss how those who work in the law field view this information. Using the historical background of cameras in the courtroom, and examining some recent cases that have been heavily publicized, this thesis will demonstrate how the relationship between the electronic media and the courtroom has become an on-going occurrence which has made them virtually inseparable.
Identifier: 9780599109209 (isbn), 15606 (digitool), FADT15606 (IID), fau:12364 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1998.
Subject(s): Video tapes in courtroom proceedings
Free press and fair trial
Conduct of court proceedings
Courtroom art
Television broadcasting of news
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