| How Free Can the Press Be? Contributor(s): Bezanson, Randall P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 025207520X ISBN-13: 9780252075209 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: In "How Free Can the Press Be?" Randall P. Bezanson explores contradictions embedded in understanding press freedom in America by discussing nine of the most pivotal and provocative First Amendment cases in U.S. judicial history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Media & The Law - Law | Constitutional - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 342.730 |
| Series: History of Communication (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.34" W x 8.88" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Randall P. Bezanson explores the contradictions embedded in understanding press freedom in America by discussing nine of the most pivotal and provocative First Amendment cases in US judicial history. Each case resulted in a ruling that refined or reshaped judicial definition of the limits of press freedom. The cases concerned matters ranging from The New York Times's publication of the Pentagon Papers to Hugo Zacchini's claim that TV broadcasts of his human cannonball act threatened his livelihood. Bezanson also examines the case of politician blackballed by the Miami Herald; the Pittsburgh Press's argument that it had the right to use gender based column headings in its classifieds; and a crime victim suing the Des Moines Register over the paper's publication of intimate details, including the victim's name. |