Democracy and the Mass Media - A Collection of Essays

Klappentext These essays discuss US policy in regulating the media and the reconciliation of the First Amendment. Zusammenfassung A group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how US policy issues treat government regulation of the media and how newspapers and television are regulated differently. This is a book for anyone seriously interested in the rights to free speech and expression in technologically advanced societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on contributors; Introduction Judith Lichtenberg; 1. Liberal constraints on private power?: reflections on the origins and rationale of access regulation Stephen Holmes; 2. Liberalism and free speech David Kelly and Roger Donway; 3. Foundations and limits of freedom of the press Judith Lichtenberg; 4. Why the State? Owen Fiss; 5. Practices of toleration Onora O'Neill; 6. Access in a post-social responsibility age Carl Sessions Stepp; 7. Who decides? Fredrick Schauer; 8. Four criticisms of press ethics Jeffrey B. Abramson; 9. Political communication systems and democratic values Michael Gurevitch and Jay Blumler; 10. Mass communications policy: where we are and where we should be going Henry Geller; 11. Content regulation reconsidered Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr.; 12. The rationale of public regulation of the media Lee Bollinger; 13. The role of a free press in strengthening democracy Sanford J. Ungar; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Judith Lichtenberg, Judith (University of Maryland Lichtenberg
• Mitarbeit: Judith Lichtenberg (Herausgeber), Lichtenberg Judith (Herausgeber), Douglas MacLean (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.05.1990
• EAN: 9780521388177
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38817-7
• Seiten: 424
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy