Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment - Hardcover

Minow, Newton N.; Lamay, Craig L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809023113 ISBN 13: 9780809023110

Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, 1995

Synopsis

Arguing that the First Amendment can be used on behalf of children to make sure television nurtures rather than harms them, a pathbreaking book offers workable ideas for an effective children's policy to limit commercial interests dominating programming today.

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

"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 & Wang Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0809023113
• ISBN 13: 9780809023110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 237