Exploring the First Amendment Through Journalism: A Review of "Committing Journalism".
This paper provides a book review on Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog by authors Dannie Martin and Peter Sussman. This book is remarkable in that it is a collection of essays by Dannie Martin, a prison inmate, and Peter Sussman, his editor. In total, fifty essays written on all aspects of the federal prison system are found within this book, and cover a wide range of topics from racism to AIDS to the prison societies. Committing Journalism also describes the First Amendment problems that occurred when Martin and Sussman attempted to publish these essays in the San Francisco Chronicle. 3 pgs. bibliography lists 1 source.
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