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American Broadcast Regulation And The First Amendment: Another Look
Author: Tillinghast, Charles H.
1e; Hardback; Book
178 pages
Published: June 2000
Iowa State University Press
ISBN: 0813825687

American Broadcast Regulation and the First Amendment: Another Look is a history of federal regulation of U.S. broadcasting. In this book, Tillinghast explores the paths by which the broadcasting industry reached its current state of affairs and hypothesizes about the possibilities and dangers broadcasting presents for the future.The book explains how two important broadcast law cases, NBC versus U.S. and Red Lion Broadcasting Co. versus FCC, affect the industry and our First Amendment rights. Tillinghast also covers two major victories in the movement to deregulate broadcasting -- the elimination of the fairness doctrine in 1987 and the adoption of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 -- and calls for restoration of a revised fairness doctrine.The history of media regulation, neglected in US law schools according to the author, is specially relevant in this era of media conglomerates, and may provide a valuable corrective to corporate propaganda per the foreword by Dr. McChesney of the U. of Illinois. Covering the 1912 Radio Act (prompt


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