Sentinel Under Siege: The Triumphs and Troubles of America's Free Press Paperback - 1998
by Stanley E. Flink
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Predicting the feature of the news and public information business in probably more difficult than anticipating developments in other institutions upon which society depends for order and enlightenment.
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Sentinel Under Siege traces the evolution of the media in the United States and its capacity to examine and regulate itself, from its earliest colonial roots to the modern explosion of digital technology. Once the Bill of Rights was enacted in 1791, the press became the first and only enterprise explicitly protected by the United States Constitution. This book is concerned with the legal content given to freedom of the press by the Supreme Court, and the fitful attempts of media criticism - both intramural and external - to build a greater sense of responsibility among the practitioners. Stanley Flink is concerned less with the people's right to know than with the people's need to know. Only a competent, responsible press - whatever its means of distribution - can perform the role of watchdog over official abuse of power, business corruption, and political distortions. But the acquisition of so many newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting facilities by corporate conglomerates threatens a new kind of prior restraint on an independent press - the conflicts of interest; the power of advertising; the unspoken self-censorship of reporters and editors, print or electronic, based on the perceived predilections of their employers; and the financial interests of related companies.
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- Title Sentinel Under Siege: The Triumphs and Troubles of America's Free Press
- Author Stanley E. Flink
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Printing
- Pages 334
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-07-24
- ISBN 9780813333458 / 0813333458
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.05 x 6.01 x 0.87 in (22.99 x 15.27 x 2.21 cm)
- Reading level 1430
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.445
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