War and Press Freedom
The Problem of Prerogative Power
War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power is a groundbreaking and provocative study of one of the most perplexing civil liberties issues in American history: What authority does or should the government have to control press coverage and commentary in wartime? First Amendment scholar Jeffery A. Smith shows convincingly that no such extraordinary power exists under the Constitution, and that officials have had to rely on claiming the existence of an autocratic higher law of survival. Smith carefully surveys the development of statutory restrictions and military regulations for the news media from the ratification of the Bill of R…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-535674-8
- EAN: 9780195356748
- Produktnummer: 13925660
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 26'927 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 halftones
Über den Autor
Jeffery A. Smith is a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa.
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