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Freedom of the Press, a Bibliocyclopedia
Ralph Edward McCoy
其他書名
Ten-year Supplement (1967-1977)
出版Southern Illinois University Press, 1979
主題Political Science / CensorshipReference / GeneralReference / Bibliographies & IndexesSocial Science / Media Studies
ISBN08093084449780809308446
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=s4NBAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In the decade since the publication of "Freedom of the Press: An Annotated Bibliography" (1968) there has been an unprecedented volume of publishing in this area, reflecting several factors: an increased awareness of the importance of intellectual freedom in the democratic world, the emergence of new facets of concern, and greater complexities in the mass media. More than half as many publications relating to press freedom in the English-speaking world appeared in the past ten years as in the previous four hundred years. The literature of law and journalism account for a large part of the increase, but general interest publications also gave greater attention to freedom of the press. Watergate and the attacks on the press under the Nixon Administration were the events that brought forth the greatest avalanche of publications in both the general and the scholarly press. Just now there seems to be a curious publishing lull in the field of intellectual freedom, possibly the result of media and reader exhaustion from the tremendous volume of commentary that grew out of Watergate. But the issue of a free press is eternal and will continue in varying patterns, as its defenders, its reformers, and its detractors exercise their own right to speak and write freely.--Preface