Seven Dirty Words and Six Other Stories: Controlling the Content of Print and Broadcast

by Matthew Laurence Spitzer

Why does the United States control the content of broadcast more strictly than it controls the content of print? In this provocative book, Matthew L. Spitzer explores the various rationales that support such different treatment and concludes that broadcast media should not be as strictly regulated as it is.

Spitzer attacks the three most prevalent arguments in favor of broadcast control, utilizing insights from economics and social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300035683
• ISBN13: 9780300035681
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"