Freedom of the Press for Whom?: The Right of Access to Mass Media

by Jerome A. Barron

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253128404
• ISBN13: 9780253128409
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

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a thorough survey

This book is a thorough survey and examination of the right of the people to have access to mass media. It is written by a professor at Indiana University and covers: 1. Access to the Press: Introduction 2. Freedom of the press, Chicago Style: A Judicial Solution 3. Access to the Campus Press 4. The Campus Press--Underground or Aboveground? 5. A Letter to the Editor 6. Access Through Congress? 7. The Media--Within or Beyond the First Amendment 8. Marcuse, Mill, and Agnew 9. The Search for an Audience 10. Crime as a Forum 11. Broadcasting--The Half-Opened Media 12. Broadcasters and Controversy 13. The Roar of Red Lion: The Rights of the Viewer 14. The Unfairness of Fairness 15. The Movement for Access to Television 16. The Rise of Citizen Groups 17. Media, Pa.: A Success for the Citizen Group? 18. Three That Almost Made a Revolution--Access and Concentration of Ownership in the Media 19. The Petition to Deny--A Weapon for the Citizen Group? 20. The Citizen Group at Work 21. CATV: Instant Access or Not? 22. Access for What? 23. The Media Look at Access 24. The Future of Access to the Media Of course, the Internet now provides a modicum of access to the public for ordinary people. But it is a squeek next to the roar of TV, movies and the New York publishing industry. It would be nice to have a updated second edition of this extraordinarily important book, but this book as it stands provides an exhaustive list of the possibilities.