CBS Evening News - 1988-02-24
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[0:00] We see you tomorrow at 5. Here's CBS.
[0:03] [music]
[0:04] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rand
[0:07] reporting. Good evening. A major
[0:09] decision by the US Supreme Court today
[0:11] in the so-called case of the preacher
[0:13] versus the pornographer. A ruling
[0:15] expanding the constitutional protection
[0:18] of parody and satire. The justices threw
[0:21] out a $200,000 emotional distress
[0:23] judgment that television preacher Jerry
[0:25] Fwell won from Hustler magazine
[0:28] publisher Larry Flint. Our law
[0:30] correspondent, Rita Braver, reports on
[0:32] the new boundaries on bad taste and free
[0:34] speech.
[0:37] >> A unanimous Supreme Court rallied to the
[0:40] cause of Hustler magazine publisher
[0:42] Larry Flint, ruling that even satire
[0:44] that is pornographic and outrageous is
[0:47] protected by the First Amendment. felt I
[0:50] felt it's got to be won only to turn the
[0:52] clock back, you know, to the 18th
[0:55] century.
[0:56] >> The court upheld Flint's right to poke
[0:58] fun at fundamentalist preacher Jerry
[1:00] Fwell. In a parody of a liquor
[1:02] advertisement, Hustler said that Fwell's
[1:05] first sexual encounter was with his
[1:07] mother in an outhouse in Virginia. Lower
[1:10] courts ruled that the ad did not liable
[1:12] Fwell because no one would believe it
[1:13] was true, but they did award him
[1:15] $200,000 for emotional distress. The
[1:19] Supreme Court struck down that award.
[1:21] The opinion by Chief Justice William
[1:22] Renquist said, "In the world of debate
[1:25] about public affairs, many things done
[1:27] with motives that are less than
[1:29] admirable are protected by the First
[1:31] Amendment."
[1:32] >> What we were trying to say is that there
[1:34] is a line there is a the line