Battle to Control Broadcast News Who Owns the First Amendment?

Name: Battle to Control Broadcast News Who Owns the First Amendment?
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ISBN: 9780262040990

ISBN-10: 0262040999

ISBN-13: 9780262040990

Edition: 1989

Authors: Hugh C. Donahue

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The Battle to Control Broadcast News chronicles the power plays, fights, betrayals, and skirmishes behind the use and misuse of both the Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to air news on controversial issues and to provide a "balance" in their programming, and the Equal Time Law, which governs political programming and claims that federal law cannot require broadcasters to carry all candidates. Hugh Donahue argues that these restrictions were never justified, that the public lost more than it gained by having them, and that fear of the power of mass communications is a constant theme shaping regulation of broadcast journalism. Donahue's sweeping history describes the curious…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/3/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144

Hugh Carter Donahue is Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University School of Journalism. He previously worked as a television news writer, an associate news producer, and television documentary filmmaker.



Preface


Acknowledgments


The Emergence of Equal Time


FDR, Equal Time, and Public Affairs


The Articulation of Fairness


Lar Daly, Codification Confusion, and the Kennedy-Nixon Debates


The Cresting Tide of the Fairness Doctrine


Candidate Debates, Press Conferences, and Polling


Documentaries


Advertisements


The Ebbing Tide of the Fairness Doctrine


An Unsettled Question: Who Owns the First Amendment?


Candidate Debates in the 1988 Presidential Election


Notes


Index