Indiana Law Journal Volume 53 Issue 4 Article 5 Summer 1978 Journalists and Terrorism: Captives of the Libertarian Tradition Walter B. Jaehnig Indiana University - Bloomington Follow this and additional works at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj Part of the Communications Law Commons, and the Criminal Law Commons Recommended Citation Jaehnig, Walter B. (1978) "Journalists and Terrorism: Captives of the Libertarian Tradition," Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 53 : Iss. 4 , Article 5. Available at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol53/iss4/5 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Journals at Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Indiana Law Journal by an authorized editor of Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Journalists and Terrorism: Captives of the Libertarian Tradition WALTER B. JAEHNIG* The scientific revolution of the seventeenth century was the precursor of the in- dustrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth. In consequence, man has suffered the impact of an enormously enlarged control of physical energies without any cor- responding ability to control himself and his own affairs. Man, a child in understanding of himself, has placed in his hands physical tools of incalculable power. He plays with them like a child, and whether they work harm or good is largely a mat- ter of accident. The instrumentality becomes a master and works fatally as if possessed of a will of its own-not because it has a will but because man has not. John Dewey THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS George Martz, a Marion County deputy prosecutor, went on television on Thursday, Feb.