In "Democracy, Inc.", David S Allen exposes the vested interests behind the US slide toward conflating corporate values with public and democratic values. He argues that rather than being institutional protectors of democratic principles, the press and law perversely contribute to the destruction of public discourse in the United States today. Allen utilizes historical, philosophical, sociological, and legal sources to trace America's gradual embrace of corporate values. He argues that such values, including winning, efficiency, and profitability actually limit democratic involvement by devaluing discursive principles, creating an informed yet inactive public. Through an examination of professionalization in both the press and the law, corporate free speech rights, and free speech as property, "Democracy, Inc." demonstrates that today's democracy is more about trying to control and manage citizens than giving them the freedom to participate. Allen not only calls on institutions to reform the way they understand and promote citizenship but also asks citizens to adopt a new ethic of public discourse that values understanding rather than winning. David S Allen is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the coeditor of "Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression". A volume in "The History of Communication" series, edited by Robert W McChesney and John C. Nerone.
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corporate rationalization, public forum doctrine, press professionalization, nonmedia corporations, institutional press, active public sphere, professionalization movement, inactive public, corporate personhood, social responsibility theory, press clause, facing democracy, marketplace metaphor, public journalism, privilege cases, codification movement, discourse democracy, sociological jurisprudence, corporate press, legal formalism, corporate liberalism, shield law, professionalization process, legal realism, privilege claims Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Amendment, Supreme Court, United States, New York, Progressive Era, Justice Souter, Fourteenth Amendment, National Park Service, New Deal, United Reporting, Bill of Rights, Santa Clara, Justice Brennan, New Jersey, War Veterans Council, Jurgen Habermas, Justice Marshall, South Carolina, Black Panther, Clear Channel, Jeffrey Lustig, Justice Powell, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice Scalia New!
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corporate rationalization, public forum doctrine, press professionalization, nonmedia corporations, institutional press, active public sphere, professionalization movement, inactive public, corporate personhood, social responsibility theory, press clause, facing democracy, marketplace metaphor, public journalism, privilege cases, codification movement, discourse democracy, sociological jurisprudence, corporate press, legal formalism, corporate liberalism, shield law, professionalization process, legal realism, privilege claims Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Amendment, Supreme Court, United States, New York, Progressive Era, Justice Souter, Fourteenth Amendment, National Park Service, New Deal, United Reporting, Bill of Rights, Santa Clara, Justice Brennan, New Jersey, War Veterans Council, Jurgen Habermas, Justice Marshall, South Carolina, Black Panther, Clear Channel, Jeffrey Lustig, Justice Powell, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice Scalia New!
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- The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jürgen Habermas on 4 pages
- Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by Robert W. McChesney in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The First Amendment by Louis M. Seidman on page 39, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Civil Society and Political Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jean L. Cohen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jurgen Habermas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Speech Rights in America: The First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media (History of Communication) by Laura Stein in Back Matter
- Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary (History of Communication) by Chad Raphael in Back Matter
- Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain (The History of Communication) by Michelle Elizabeth Tusan in Back Matter
- Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment (The History of Communication (Hco)) by Duane C.S. Stoltzfus in Back Matter
- Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s (History of Communication) by Inger L. Stole in Back Matter
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