The First Amendment and the media in the court of public opinion
In light of recent frustrations with the press over its increasingly sensationalistic coverage of the news, no liberty is more vulnerable to the vagaries of the current political climate than is 'freedom of the press'.
Print Book, English, 2001
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2001
xii, 155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521804660, 9780521011815, 0521804663, 0521011817
1077954225
1. Freedom of the press and the power of public opinion; 2. Surveying the public on press freedoms; 3. What Americans know about the freedom of the press; 4. Public support for press freedoms; 5. Support for press freedoms across media: comparing print, electronic and the 'new media'; 6. Support for press freedoms within a medium: elite, mainstream and tabloid news sources; 7. Public opinion, the first amendment and the challenges of the 21st century.