Reportage Medialog

This morning’s Sydney Morning Herald carried a very brief report on Time’s capitulation in the Cooper/Miller case. As this is an American political scandal and an American constitutional issue this is understandable news judgment. But this is not just a local issue. Because of the developed body of free speech law in the US, legal decisions there influence the international standards of free speech legal discourse.

There is currently not much movement locally to campaign for better protections but when, perhaps in the context of a rejuvinated bill of rights discussion, it does bubble to the surface again, the inviolate American protections will no longer seem so strong an example.