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Free Speech and Unfree News : The Paradox of Press Freedom in America / Sam Lebovic.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674969612
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.44/509730904
LOC classification:
  • Z658.U5 L43 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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