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Sentinel Under Siege by Stanley E Flink, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Stanley E Flink

Current price: $83.98
Sentinel Under Siege by Stanley E Flink, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Sentinel Under Siege by Stanley E Flink, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Sentinel Under Siege by Stanley E Flink, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Stanley E Flink

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Sentinel Under Siege traces the evolution of the media in the United States and its capacity to examine and regulate itself, from its earliest colonial roots to the modern explosion of digital technology. Once the Bill of Rights was enacted in 1791, the press became the first and only enterprise explicitly protected by the United States Constitution. This book is concerned with the legal content given to freedom of the press by the Supreme Court, and the fitful attempts of media criticism - both intramural and external - to build a greater sense of responsibility among the practitioners. Stanley Flink is concerned less with the people's right to know than with the people's need to know. Only a competent, responsible press - whatever its means of distribution - can perform the role of watchdog over official abuse of power, business corruption, and political distortions. But the acquisition of so many newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting facilities by corporate conglomerates threatens a new kind of prior restraint on an independent press - the conflicts of intere | Sentinel Under Siege by Stanley E Flink, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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