He singled out the faculty for a warning on subsidized speech, expression that is supported by government agencies like the National Endowment for the Arts. Another First Amendment issue that will be addressed more and more frequently in the future is the growing number of big media mergers and acquisitions. I favor in the abstract the idea of equal access. But he warned again that trying to make access fair may mean compromising the First Amendment. Turning to the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees the right to privacy, Wicker warned about the dangers posed by technology.
Police agencies are able to pinpoint the locations of cell phones.
Some police agencies have heat-seeking devices that allow them to locate grow lights used to grow marijuana. It's easy to take those rights for granted, and we do. Wicker defended the news media against accusations that it regularly violates the Fifth Amendment in its coverage of individuals, particularly in the case of the Clinton impeachment and death of Princess Diana. The right of privacy seems to be mainly in the eye of the beholder. It is not concrete and inevitable.