First Amendment and the Fourth Estate: The Law of Mass Media

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A textbook in communications law for undergraduate or graduate students, emphasizing opinions of the Supreme Court. Throughout the volume are some 30 principal cases which help define communications law, while in between are references to hundreds more cases and statutes. Among the new principal cases in this edition (5th ed., 1991) are Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., US v. Edge Broadcasting, Cohen v. Cowles Media, and Cincinnati v. Discovery Channel, Inc. Also new in this edition are the 1992 Cable Act, including Turner Broadcasting System v. F.C.C., the FCC's Children's Television Programming policies, and expanded materials on media liability for emotional as well as physical harm. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


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A textbook in communications law for undergraduate or graduate students, emphasizing opinions of the Supreme Court. Throughout the volume are some 30 principal cases which help define communications law, while in between are references to hundreds more cases and statutes. Among the new principal cases in this edition (5th ed., 1991) are Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., US v. Edge Broadcasting, Cohen v. Cowles Media, and Cincinnati v. Discovery Channel, Inc. Also new in this edition are the 1992 Cable Act, including Turner Broadcasting System v. F.C.C., the FCC's Children's Television Programming policies, and expanded materials on media liability for emotional as well as physical harm. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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