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18 Comm. & L. 65 (1996)
The 60 Minutes Controversy: What Lawyers Are Telling the News Media

handle is hein.journals/coml18 and id is 241 raw text is: Communications and the Law JOSEPH A. RUSSOMANNO KYU HO YOUM The 60 Minutes Controversy: What Lawyers Are Telling the News Media Joseph Russomanno is Assistant Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication, Arizona State University; Kyu Ho Youm is Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication, Arizona State University. In the United States-where courts serve as the final arbitrators of conflicts in maintaining its rule-of-law body politic-lawyers are more or less an everyday necessity and, at the same time, a necessary evil for Americans.' This is especially the case with the news media, which face litigation as an occupational hazard. FirstAmendment scholar Rodney Smolla stated: One of the great temptations for the attorney who regularly counsels a media outlet, whether it be a major national publication or a small local radio station, is to resolve in advance all potentially dangerous story problems against the client, and to counsel the client not to run 1. ROY GRUTMAN & BiLL THOMAS, LAWYERS AND THIEVES 51, 64 (1990). Communications and the Law 65

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