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Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West's article "The U.S. Supreme Court's Characterizations of the Press: An Empirical Study" (with R.A. Jones) was reviewed by Helen Norton in JOTWELL (Oct. 8, 2021). In the review titled "How the Supreme Court talks about the press (and why we should care)," Norton calls West's and Jones' study an "impressive empirical work" that details "the dramatic deterioration in both the frequency and the positivity of the Court's description of the press."

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