ABANDONED IN THE WASTELAND: Children, Television, & the First Amendment - Softcover

Minow, Newton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809015897 ISBN 13: 9780809015894

Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1996

Synopsis

Winner of the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association

Two well-known experts-Newton N. Minow is a former chairperson of the FCC-suggest bold new ways to think about television and its influence on American life and, most urgently, on American children. The authors argue that to defend an unrestricted freedom to broadcast by invoking the First Ammendent is an improper use of constitutional principle. They remind us that broadcasters are required by law to serve the public interest, and that the Supreme Court and Congress have affirmed that service to children is a broadcaster's legal obligation.

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Review:

"A skillful amalgam of law, the history of broadcasting, sociology, and impassioned argument." --David Greenberg, The Washington Post Book World

From the Back Cover:

Broadcasters, parents, public officials, and teachers have all abandoned our children to a wasteland of vacuous, often violent television programing. In this eloquent book, Newton Minow and Craig LaMay persuasively demonstrate that this is a false application of the First Amendment. Broadcasters are required by law to serve the public interest, and the Supreme Court and Congress have said that service to children is a broadcaster's obligation under law, they remind us; the First Amendment can be used on behalf of children, to help make television a force that will nurture and not harm them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0809015897
• ISBN 13: 9780809015894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252