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9780521011815

The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521011815

  • ISBN10:

    0521011817

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-14
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

In light of recent frustrations with the press over its increasingly sensationalistic coverage of the news, no liberty is more vulnerable to the vagaries of the current political climate than is 'freedom of the press'. By considering public opinion data from two original surveys (in 1997 and 1999) on free press rights against the backdrop of modern First Amendment jurisprudence, we offer new and original insights into the nature of popular support for these rights. Our findings are as comforting as they are counterintuitive: public support for the constitutional right to a free press remains as strong as ever, even as its most visible practitioners find themselves increasingly under siege. In offering this argument, we stake our position in an age-old debate over the true value and worth of public opinion. Our findings endorse the notion of a 'rational' public as well as the strength of press freedoms in our society.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
vi
Preface and Acknowledgments viii
Freedom of the Press and the Power of Public Opinion
1(25)
Surveying the Public on Press Freedoms
26(13)
What Americans Know About the Freedom of the Press
39(17)
Public Support for the Freedom of the Press
56(19)
Support for Press Freedoms Across Media: Comparing Print, Electronic, and the ``New Media''
75(20)
Support for Press Freedoms within a Medium: Elite, Mainstream, and Tabloid News Sources
95(16)
Public Opinion, the First Amendment, and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
111(12)
Appendix: Annotated Questionnaires 123(22)
References 145(6)
Index 151

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