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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Jessica, author.

Maksl, Adam, author.

Series:

Documentary and reference guides.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 385 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

"This authoritative annotated document collection surveys and explains efforts to censor, intimidate, suppress-and reform and improve-news organizations and journalism in America, from the newspapers of colonial times to the social media that saturates the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Reader's Guide to Related Documents and Sidebars

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Threats to the Press during Wartime

Document 1. The Sedition Act of 1798

Document 2. President Abraham Lincoln's Executive Order, 1864

Document 3. President Woodrow Wilson's Letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman, 1917

Document 4. The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918

Document 5. The U.S. Supreme Court's Decision in Schenck v. United States, 1919

Document 6. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Executive Order 8985, 1941

Document 7. The U.S. Supreme Court's Decision in New York Times v. United States, 1971

Document 8. Ann Cooper's Speech on the Press and the War on Terrorism, 2004

Chapter 2. Criticizing the Press as Sensational

Document 9. James Fenimore Cooper's "On the American Press," 1838

Document 10. Robert Ellis Thompson's "The Age of Newspapers," 1883

Document 11. Brandeis and Warren's "The Right to Privacy," 1890

Document 12. Excerpts from President Theodore Roosevelt's Muck-Rake Address, 1906

Document 13. James Edward Rogers's "The American Newspaper," 1909

Document 14. President Harry Truman's Letter to Dean Acheson, 1955

Document 15. Representative Maurice Hinchey's Statement on Coverage of President Bill Clinton, 1998

Document 16. Senator James Inhofe's Statement about Climate Change Alarmism, 2006

Chapter 3. Legal Attacks on the Press

Document 17. The U.S. Supreme Court's Decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, 1964

Document 18. The U.S. Supreme Court's Decision in Cohen v. Cowles Media Co., 1991

Document 19. The Memorandum of Decision in the case of Cochran v. New York Post Holdings, Inc. and Peyser, 1998

Document 20. The U.S. Court of Appeals Decision in Food Lion, Inc. v. Capital Cities/ABC, 1999.

Document 21. Brief for the United States in Judith Miller v. United States, 2005

Document 22. The Motion for Injunction in the Case of Terry Bollea v. Gawker Media, 2012

Document 23. The Report of the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility on Subpoenas of Associated Press Phone Records, 2014

Document 24. Statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists on the arrest of Julian Assange, 2019

Document 25. Lawsuits Filed by the Donald Trump campaign against News Organizations, 2020

Chapter 4. Physical Attacks on Journalists

Document 26. Benjamin Franklin's Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature, 1789

Document 27. The Last Speech of Abolitionist Publisher Elijah Lovejoy, 1837

Document 28. Story and Editorial from Canton (OH) Daily News on Their Murdered Editor, 1926

Document 29. Excerpts from The Arizona Project about Slain Journalist Don Bolles, 1977

Document 30. Statement from the Los Angeles Police Department on the Murder of a Citizen Journalist, 2002

Document 31. Stories compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists regarding Chauncey Bailey, 2007

Document 32. Editorial published in the Capital Gazette after a Shooting at Their Newsroom, 2018

Document 33. President Donald Trump's Statement on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi, 2018

Chapter 5. Attacks on Perceived Media Bias

Document 34. Editorial in The Atlantic Monthly, 1908

Document 35. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Press Conference, 1935

Document 36. Statement from Representative Lamar Smith on Media Bias, 2008

Document 37. Testimony to the U.S. House from Dan Gainor, 2009

Document 38. Statement from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on Climate Change, 2013

Document 39. Paper by Jackie Calmes, "They Don't Give a Damn about Governing," 2015.

Document 40. Willnat, Weaver, and Wilhoit on The American Journalist in the Digital Age, 2017

Document 41. Tweets about Fox News and the Democratic National Convention, 2019

Chapter 6. Aspirational Critiques

Document 42. Walter Lippmann's "Journalism and the Higher Law," 1920

Document 43. Hutchins Commission Report on Freedom of the Press, 1947

Document 44. Kerner Commission Report on "The News Media and the Disorders," 1968

Document 45. Testimony on Media Coverage of the 2000 Election, 2001

Document 46. Interview with Reporters on Civil Rights Coverage, 2004

Document 47. Testimony on the Future of Journalism, 2009

Document 48. Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson, Reconstruction of American Journalism, 2009

Document 49. Union of Concerned Scientists' Report on Coverage of Climate Science, 2014

Chapter 7. Politicians Attacking the Press

Document 50. President George Washington's Letter on the Press, 1793

Document 51. President Thomas Jefferson's Letters on Newspapers, 1803 and 1807

Document 52. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Press Conference, 1938

Document 53. Senator Joseph McCarthy's Reply to Edward R. Murrow, 1954

Document 54. President John F. Kennedy's Address on the President and the Press, 1961

Document 55. President Richard Nixon's News Conference on Tape Recordings, 1973

Document 56. President Barack Obama's Remarks on Polarized Politics, 2016

Chapter 8. Attacks in the Era of Social Media and Fake News

Document 57. President Donald Trump's Tweets on "Fake News," 2016-2020

Document 58. Statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists about the Trump Presidency, 2016

Document 59. President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" Rally in Youngstown, Ohio, 2017

Document 60. Opposition to the SESTA-FOSTA Act, 2017.

Document 61. The Journalist Protection Act, 2018

Document 62. Senator Jeff Flake's Statement on "Truth and Democracy," 2018

Document 63. Coordinated Editorials Condemning President Trump, 2018

Document 64. Department of Justice's Announcement of Charges against Cesar Sayoc, 2018

Document 65. Announcements of Hiring and Removal of Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, 2019-2020

Document 66. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Statement about an NPR Reporter, 2020

Chronology

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-05066-7

1-4408-7257-0

OCLC:

1235903371