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Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open - A Free Press for a New Century (Hardcover)
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Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open - A Free Press for a New Century (Hardcover)
Series: Inalienable Rights
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Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First
Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this
sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press
in America and looks toward the challenges ahead.
The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly
clear terms. However, over the course of American history,
Bollinger notes, the idea of press freedom has evolved, in response
to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not
until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be
understood as guaranteeing an "uninhibited, robust and wide-open"
public discourse. But even during the twentieth century, government
continually tried to erect barriers: the sedition laws of World War
One, the use of libel law, the Pentagon Papers case, and efforts to
limit press access to information.
Bollinger utilizes this history to explore the meaning of freedom
of the press in our globalized, internet-dominated era. As he
shows, we have now entered uncharted territory. What does press
freedom mean when our news outlets can instantaneously disseminate
information throughout the world? When foreign media have immediate
access to the American market? Bollinger stresses that even though
the law will surely evolve in the coming years, we must maintain
our commitment to a press that is "uninhibited, robust, and
wide-open," not only in America but everywhere. Given the new
ability of foreign media to reach the United States via the
Internet and vice versa, it is in America's national interest for
press freedoms to expand overseas. While protecting the freedom of
the press at home remains a crucial task, the next challenge is to
help create a global public forum suitable for an increasingly
interconnected world. Part of Oxford's landmark Inalienable Rights
series, this book will set the agenda for how we think about the
press in the twenty-first century.
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