1st Edition
Sentinel Under Siege The Triumphs And Troubles Of America's Free Press
By Stanley E Flink
Copyright 1997
334 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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If the unexamined life is not worth living, surely the unexamined media is not worth heeding. Sentinel Under Siege traces the evolution of the media in the United States and its capacity to examine and regulate itself, from its earliest colonial roots to the modern explosion of digital technology.Once the Bill of Rights was enacted in 1791, the press became the first and only enterprise explicitly... Read more
* Introduction * In Search of a Role * The Press and the Law * Malice Without Wit * Pomp and Provenance * Practicing Freedom * The Limits of Liberty * Crafting a Constitution * Safeguarding Liberty * Enlarging the Fourth Estate * The Bloodiest War * The Bottom Lines * Turning Away * The First and the Fourteenth * The News Business * Toward Professionalism * Trash and Flash * The Is and the Ought * The Critics * Fear and Loathing * The Weight of Obligations * The Paradox of Self-Government * Libel and Liability * Free as the Air * Training the Watchdogs * Epilogue: Pathfinding
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Stanley E Flink
