We are sorry to note that the on-line journal Picturing Justice is no longer accepting new articles. A special message on their home page reads: "From 1997 to 2006 Picturing Justice published over 300 short articles on the intersection between law and lawyers on one side and popular culture on the other. While we are no longer accepting new articles, we hope readers will continue to enjoy the articles in our archives."
We at Zief Brief have always enjoyed reading and promoting this pioneering web publication. While Picturing Justice was originally the effort of the USF law community (and especially Professor John Denvir) it has gone on to have a web-wide list of contributors. They will be missed.
"In recent decades, television programming has been handling topics that were at one time almost unthinkable. Shows have dealt with issue such as racism, homophobia, same sex marriage, and interracial relationships. One topic that seems off limits however, is that of abortion. As Rachel Fudge points out in an article in Clamor magazine: 'As many commentators have pointed out, as all of the old you-can't-do-that-on-television taboos - sexual content, violence, cursing, nudity, homosexuality - have fallen away, abortion is the one hot-button issue that simply remains too hot for TV.'" 