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Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America Hardcover – March 14, 2016

by Sam Lebovic (Author)

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Does America have a free press? Many who answer yes appeal to First Amendment protections that shield the press from government censorship. But in this comprehensive history of American press freedom as it has existed in theory, law, and practice, Sam Lebovic shows that, on its own, the right of free speech has been insufficient to guarantee a free press.

Lebovic recovers a vision of press freedom, prevalent in the mid-twentieth century, based on the idea of unfettered public access to accurate information. This “right to the news” responded to persistent worries about the quality and diversity of the information circulating in the nation’s news. Yet as the meaning of press freedom was contested in various arenas―Supreme Court cases on government censorship, efforts to regulate the corporate newspaper industry, the drafting of state secrecy and freedom of information laws, the unionization of journalists, and the rise of the New Journalism―Americans chose to define freedom of the press as nothing more than the right to publish without government censorship. The idea of a public right to all the news and information was abandoned, and is today largely forgotten.

Free Speech and Unfree News compels us to reexamine assumptions about what freedom of the press means in a democratic society―and helps us make better sense of the crises that beset the press in an age of aggressive corporate consolidation in media industries, an increasingly secretive national security state, and the daily newspaper’s continued decline.

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[Lebovic] argue[s] that the dominant conception of civil liberties is insufficiently ambitious. [He] worr[ies] that as formulated, civil liberties are as much a tool for the powerful as for the powerless…Offer[s] important correctives to the celebratory accounts of civil liberties that we so often tell ourselves. (David Cole New York Review of Books)

Provocative and stimulating. Lebovic shows that, although the American press has grown unusually free from government interference, it is constrained by the vast expansion of government secrecy and the intensification of the profit motive in the shifting news marketplace. (Michael Schudson, author of The Rise of the Right to Know)

How could a nation proud of its commitment to free expression also be a place where journalists must scour through leaked documents to learn basic facts about government policies? Sam Lebovic’s spectacular and important book shows how the idea of a ‘right to know’ dropped out of twentieth-century understandings of the First Amendment. Essential for understanding what has become of an American free press. (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences)

Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America appears at an opportune moment in history…This is a thorough historical analysis that highlights the tension between an American commitment to a narrow definition of press freedom and access to, and reporting of, news that contributes to democratic self-government. It is superbly organized and very readable. (Joseph Russomanno Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly)

Extremely original and well-written…[Lebovic] shows fascinating relationships among many different topics that have not previously been juxtaposed. (David M. Rabban Reviews in American History)

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Sam Lebovic is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University.

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (March 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674659775
ISBN-13: 978-0674659773
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
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