Report of investigation by administrative officers. Williams v. Black, 24 S. D. 501.
[475]. The case has been much abridged.
[476]. Allbutt v. General Council, 23 Q. B. D. 400 Accord. But see Kimball v. Post Pub. Co., 199 Mass. 248; Peoples Bank v. Goodwin, 148 Mo. App. 364.
Report of proceedings of a church commission. Bass v. Mathews, 69 Wash. 214.
[477]. Only the opinion of Mellish, L. J., is given.
[478]. Macdougall v. Knight, 14 App. Cas. 194 (explaining S. C. 17 Q. B. Div. 636); Salisbury v. Union Co., 45 Hun, 120 Accord.
See Annaly v. Trade Co., L. R. 26 Ir. 394.
[479]. Parsons v. Age Herald Pub. Co., 181 Ala. 439; Washington Herald Co. v. Berry, 41 App. D. C. 322; Lundin v. Post Pub. Co., 217 Mass. 213; Schwarz v. Evening News Co., 84 N. J. Law, 486; Williams v. Black, 24 S. D. 501; Williams Printing Co. v. Saunders, 113 Va. 156 Accord.
But see U. S. v. Journal Co., 197 Fed. 415; Tilles v. Pulitzer Pub. Co., 241 Mo. 609.
“Their Lordships regret to find that there appeared on the one side of this case the time-worn fallacy that some kind of privilege attaches to the profession of the Press as distinguished from the members of the public. The freedom of the journalist is an ordinary part of the freedom of the subject, and to whatever lengths the subject in general may go so also may the journalist, but, apart from statute law, his privilege is no other and no higher. The responsibilities which attach to his power in the dissemination of printed matter may, and in the case of a conscientious journalist do, make him more careful; but the range of his assertions, his criticisms, or his comments is as wide as, and no wider than, that of any other subject. No privilege attaches to his position.” Lord Shaw in Arnold v. King-Emperor, 111 L. T. 324, 325.