Siblings under the skin. A symbiosis that's often uneasy but essential to a free press.
Journalists vex in the normal course of their work.
Rich and powerful corporations demand redress. Average citizens want justice for offense to their reputations. Judges, juries, and gladiatorial media lawyers vigorously test the boundaries of where collecting and disseminating the news becomes lawbreaking. Ever since Andrew Hamilton successfully defended the printer John Peter Zenger in 1735 for accusing New York's royal governor of corruption and incompetence, lawyers for the press and their adversaries have been battling to define the size of the clearing in the woods where journalists can confidently operate. It is the best Cause.