THE COURTS, THE PRESS, AND THE PUBLIC

Authors

Stuart H. Perry, Publisher, Adrian Daily Telegram; Vice-Pres., Monroe Evening News; Director, Associated Press; member, Advisory Committee, Columbia University School of Journalism. Member, Michigan Judicial Council.

Abstract

It was with especial gratification that I accepted this invitation to speak. It is a pleasure to be with you, and it affords me an opportunity to contribute to a discussion of matters that are of great importance to your profession and my own and to the public. Perhaps I should not thus separate myself from your profession. I am still at least nominally a member of the bar, and though it is many years since I last appeared in court I have a keen and sympathetic interest in legal matters and enjoy my contacts with the bench and bar of Michigan. Still, I can hardly be called a lawyer; indeed, I am classified as a lay member of the Judicial Council, and my outlook today is primarily that of a journalist. In short, my professional standing is somewhat amphibious, as Blackstone used to say - which increases my sympathy with both professions and perhaps also tends to make me more critical of both than I should be if my allegiance were wholly undivided.

Recommended Citation

Stuart H. Perry, THE COURTS, THE PRESS, AND THE PUBLIC, 30 Mich. L. Rev. 228 (1931).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol30/iss2/4