Free Speech and Unfree News : : The Paradox of Press Freedom in America / / Sam Lebovic.
Does America have a free press? Many who say yes appeal to First Amendment protections against censorship. Sam Lebovic shows that free speech, on its own, is not sufficient to produce a free press and helps us understand the crises that beset the press amid media consolidation, a secretive national...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: The Problem of Press Freedom -- 1. The Inadequacy of Speech Rights -- 2. Interwar Threats to Press Freedom -- 3. A New Deal for the Corporate Press? -- 4. Dependent Journalists, Independent Journalism? -- 5. The Weapon of Information in the Good War -- 6. The Cold War Dilemma of a Free Press -- 7. The Rise of State Secrecy -- 8. Leaks, Mergers, and Nixon’s Assault on the News -- 9. Sprawling Secrecy and Dying Newsrooms -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Summary: | Does America have a free press? Many who say yes appeal to First Amendment protections against censorship. Sam Lebovic shows that free speech, on its own, is not sufficient to produce a free press and helps us understand the crises that beset the press amid media consolidation, a secretive national security state, and the daily newspaper’s decline. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674969612 9783110638585 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674969612 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sam Lebovic. |