Scrambling for Protection : The New Media and the First Amendment / Patrick M. Garry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garry, Patrick M., author.

Series:

Pitt series in policy and institutional studies.

Pitt series in policy and institutional studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of the press--United States.

Freedom of the press.

Mass media--Law and legislation--United States.

Mass media.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1995]

Summary:

In our age of media revolutions, Patrick M. Garry offers guidelines for constitutionally redefining the press, and maintains that the First Amendment press clause must broaden the scope of its freedoms to include the communication activities of a much larger public.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Part I. The First Amendment at the Edge of Change

1. Approaching Changes in First Amendment Press Doctrines

2. Historical Patterns of Change in the First Amendment

Part II. Agents of Change

3. The Changing Press

4. The Emergence of New Media Technologies

5. Political Pressures for a Changing Press

Part III. The Need for Change in First Amendment Press Doctirnes

6. The Existing Constitutional Model of the Press

7. The Inadequacy of Existing First Amendment Models

Part IV. Shaping New First Amanedment Doctrines by Defining the Press

8. The Historical Identity of the American Press

9. The Independent Nature of the First Amendment Press Clause

10. The Press, Politics, and the Democratic Dialogue

Part V. The Future of the First Amendment

11. Unifying the First Amendment for a Converging Press

12. Applying the First Amendment to the New Press

Notes

Index of Cases.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780822974741

0822974746

OCLC:

1423040204