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]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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