Attacks on the American press : a documentary and reference guide / Jessica Roberts and Adam Maksl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Jessica (Jessica Stewart), author.

Maksl, Adam, author.

Contributor:

Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Series:

Documentary and reference guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Press and politics--United States--History--Sources.

Press and politics.

Journalism--Political aspects--United States--History--Sources.

Journalism.

Censorship--United States--History--Sources.

Censorship.

Freedom of the press--United States--History--Sources.

Freedom of the press.

Government and the press--United States--History--Sources.

Government and the press.

History.

Journalism--Political aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 385 pages).

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Threats to the press during wartime. The Sedition Act of 1798

President Abraham Lincoln's executive order, 1864

President Woodrow Wilson's letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman, 1917

The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Schenck v. United States, 1919

President Franklin Roosevelt's executive order 8985, 1941

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in New York times v. United States, 1971

Ann Cooper's speech on the press and the war on terrorism, 2004

Criticizing the press as sensational. James Fenimore Cooper's "On the American press," 1838

Robert Ellis Thompson's "The age of newspapers," 1883

Brandeis and Warren's "The right to privacy," 1890

Excerpts from President Theodore Roosevelt's muck-rake address, 1906

James Edward Rogers's "The American newspaper," 1909

President Harry Truman's letter to Dean Acheson, 1955

Representative Maurice Hinchey's statement on coverage of President Bill Clinton, 1998

Senator James Inhofe's statement about climate change alarmism, 2006

Legal attacks on the press. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in New York times v. Sullivan, 1964

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Cohen v. Cowles Media Co.

The memorandum of decision in the case of Cochran v. New York Post Holdings, Inc, and Peyser, 1998

The U.S. Court of Appeals decision in Food Lion, Inc. v. Capital Cities/ABC, 1999

Brief for the United States in Judith Miller v. United States, 2005

The motion for injunction in the case of Terry Bollea v. Gawker Media, 2012

The report of the Department of Justice's office of professional responsibility on subpoenas of Associated Press phone records, 2014

Statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists on the arrest of Julian Assange, 2019

Lawsuits filed by Donald Trump campaign against news organizations, 2020

Physical attacks on journalists. Benjamin Franklin's account of the supremest court of judicature, 1789

The last speech of abolitionist publisher Elijah Lovejoy, 1837

Story and editorial from Canton (OH) daily news on their murdered editor, 1926

Excerpts from the Arizona project about slain journalist Don Bolles, 1977

Statement from the Los Angeles Police Department on the murder of a citizen journalist, 2002

Stories compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists regarding Chauncey Bailey, 2007

Editorial published in the Capital gazette after a shooting at their newsroom, 2018

President Donald Trump's statement on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, 2018

Attacks on perceived media bias. Editorial in The Atlantic monthly, 1908

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's press conference, 1935

Statement from Representative Lamar Smith on media bias, 2008

Testimony to the U.S. House from Dan Gainor, 2009

Statement from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on climate change, 2013

Paper by Jackie Calmes, "They don't give a damn about governing," 2015

Willnat, Weaver, and Wilhoit on The American journalist in the digital age, 2017

Tweets about Fox News and the Democratic National Convention, 2019

Aspirational critiques. Walter Lippman's "Journalism and the higher law," 1920

Hutchins Commission report on freedom of the press, 1947

Kerner Commission report on "The news media and the disorders," 1968

Testimony on media coverage of the 2000 election, 2001

Interview with reporters on civil rights coverage, 2004

Testimony on the future of journalism, 2009

Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson, reconstruction of American journalism, 2009

Union of Concerned Scientists' report on coverage of climate science, 2014

Politicians attacking the press. President George Washington's letter on the press, 1793

President Thomas Jefferson's letters on newspapers, 1803 and 1807

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's press conference, 1938

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's reply to Edward R. Murrow, 1954

President John F. Kennedy's address on the president and the press, 1961

President Richard Nixon's news conference on tape recordings, 1973

President Barack Obama's remarks on polarized politics, 2016

Attacks in the era of social media and fake news. President Donald Trump's tweets on "fake news," 2016-2020

Statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists about the Trump presidency, 2016

President Donald Trump's "Make America great again" rally in Youngstown, Ohio, 2017

Opposition to the SESTA-FOSTA Act, 2017

The Journalist Protection Act, 2018

Senator Jeff Flake's statement on "truth and democracy," 2018

Coordinated editorials condemning President Trump, 2018

Department of Justice's announcement of charges against Cesar Sayoc, 2018

Announcements of hiring and removal of press secretary Stephanie Grisham, 2019-2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's statement about an NPR reporter, 2020.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Roberts, Jessica (Jessica Stewart). Attacks on the American press.

ISBN:

9781440872570

1440872570

Publisher Number:

99988994160

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Restricted for use by site license.