How Free Can the Press Be? (The History of Media and Communication) - Hardcover

Bezanson, Randall P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025202866X ISBN 13: 9780252028663

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Randall P. Bezanson was the David H. Vernon Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. His books include How Free Can Religion Be?

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 025202866X
• ISBN 13: 9780252028663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272