ABSTRACT

Free speech and free press enjoy more judicial protection today then ever before. The right of protesters to picket, of advocates to parade, and of journalists even to libel public figures are sedulously protected by the Supreme Court. Not since before the Civil War have antidemo­ cratic movements had so few members and so little influence. And yet, perhaps, some day, looking backwards, we may see this era as one in which the First Amendment was undermined. The problem stems from a failure of the law to reflect how electronics is taking over the technol­ ogy of communication.