Democracy and the Mass Media

These essays discuss US policy in regulating the media and the reconciliation of the First Amendment.

A group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how US policy issues treat government regulation of the media and how newspapers and television are regulated differently. This is a book for anyone seriously interested in the rights to free speech and expression in technologically advanced societies.In this volume a group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how to reconcile our values concerning freedom of the press with the enormous power of the media - especially television - to shape opinions and values. The policy issues treated concern primarily the extent of justifiable government regulation of the media and the justification for regulating television differently from newspapers. The volume contains some highly original and groundbreaking analyses of philosophical issues surrounding the First Amendment of the US Bill of Rights. This is a book for anyone seriously interested in the rights to free speech and expression in technologically advanced societies.