Printers and press freedom : the ideology of early American journalism /
"N the United States, the press has sometimes been described as an unoffical fourth branch of government, a branch that serves as a check on the other three and provides the information necessary for a democracy to function. Freedom of the press--guaranteed but not defined by the First Amendmen...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1988.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Philosophies and Practices
- The English Experience
- The Marketplace of Ideas Concept
- The Ideals of the Enlightenment
- Political and Legal Questions
- Sovereignty and Seditious Libel
- Demands, Defenses, and Distinctions
- The Ideology in Practice: The Case of Franklin and His Partners
- The Colonial Journalist: Good Humour'd Unless Provok'd
- The Enlightened Printer: Virtue and Vituperation
- The Prerevolutionary Printer: The Ideal of Impartiality
- The Revolutionary Journalist: The Court of the Press.