{"id":747,"date":"2009-06-29T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/shouting_fire_-_metaphor_trump\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T16:46:28","slug":"shouting_fire_-_metaphor_trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/shouting_fire_-_metaphor_trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Shouting Fire &#8211; metaphor as cover up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airing tonight on HBO, Liz Garbus&#8217; documentary, <em>Shouting Fire<\/em>, has as its subtitle, <i>Stories From the Edge of Free Speech<\/i>. (Preview via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/29\/arts\/television\/29shout.html?_r=1&amp;ref=arts\">NYT<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>While I haven&#8217;t seen it, she didn&#8217;t need to explain the title. Oliver Wendell Holmes&#8217; metaphor is so rooted in the American imagination that her two-word contraction carries the day.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes sense. The elegant image, however, supported a bad judgment and helped Holmes ride into history lauded for good sense he did not, in this case, demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court opinion in question upheld a prison sentence given the pacifist Charles T. Schenck for distributing leaflets to World War I draftees. He urged them to say, without violence, hell no, we won&#8217;t go. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/us\/supreme-court\/cases\/ar37.html\">Schenck v. United States<\/a>, 1919). The fire of which he warned was not a delusion. <\/p>\n<p>When writing Supreme Court decisions, art is good, but justice is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airing tonight on HBO, Liz Garbus&#8217; documentary, Shouting Fire, has as its subtitle, Stories From the Edge of Free Speech. (Preview via NYT) While I haven&#8217;t seen it, she didn&#8217;t need to explain the title. Oliver Wendell Holmes&#8217; metaphor is so rooted in the American imagination that her two-word contraction carries the day. Holmes: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}