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Rights of Corporate Speech: Mobil Oil and the Legal Development of the Voice of Big Business (Law and Society: Recent Scholarship) [Library Binding]

Robert L. Kerr (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 2005 | Series: Law and Society: Recent Scholarship

Kerr analyzes how in the 1970s Mobil Oil made the The New York Times op-ed page the focus of its advocacy strategy to promote interests far beyond its immediate business objectives. Although other corporations produced advocacy messages, none spoke so regularly on so many issues of public policy as Mobil. Kerr shows how Mobil framed the corporate role in democratic processes as identical to that of the individual citizen. This was a radical assertion at the beginning of the seventies, but by the end of the decade Mobil's efforts were the ideological vanguard of an historic expansion of the right and practice of corporate speech.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Kerr analyzes how in the 1970s Mobil Oil made the The New York Times op-ed page the focus of its advocacy strategy to promote interests far beyond its immediate business objectives. Although other corporations produced advocacy messages, none spoke so regularly on so many issues of public policy as Mobil. Kerr shows how Mobil framed the corporate role in democratic processes as identical to that of the individual citizen. This was a radical assertion at the beginning of the seventies, but by the end of the decade Mobil's efforts were the ideological vanguard of an historic expansion of the right and practice of corporate speech.

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Professor Kerr teaches media-law classes for journalism students at the University of Oklahoma. His First Amendment research focuses on legal and public-policy issues involved in maintaining a truly free marketplace of ideas for citizens in an age when corporate and government voices have grown more powerful than ever.

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Library Binding: 224 pages
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC (January 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593320701
ISBN-13: 978-1593320706
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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In September of 1980, Mobil Oil published a paid message in the lower righthand corner of the The New York Times op-ed page thanking the newspaper's management for "a great contribution to the free market of ideas." Read the first page

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First Amendment, Supreme Court, New York, United States, Consolidated Edison, Central Hudson, Reader's Digest, Business Roundtable, Public Service Commission, Standard Oil, Citizen Mobil Goes Its, New Deal, First National Bank of Boston, White House, Chamber of Commerce, Great Depression, Jimmy Carter, Mobil Oil, President Carter, World War, Business Week, Corporate Speech Heads, Federal Election Commission, General Motors, Justice Powell

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This book cites 63 books:

Ideals in Collision (The Benjamin F. Fairless memorial lectures ; 1978) by S. Elvon Warner on 4 pages
The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on page 157, page 158, and Back Matter
Teach Yourself Public Relations Pb by Harvey Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The Brotherhood of Oil : Energy Policy and the Public Interest by Robert Engler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Regulation in Perspective by Thomas K. McCraw in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)

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