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War & Press Freedom
Jeffery Alan Smith
其他書名
The Problem of Prerogative Power
出版
Oxford University Press
, 1999
主題
History / General
History / Military / General
History / Military / United States
History / United States / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
Law / Military
Law / Media & the Law
Political Science / Censorship
Social Science / Media Studies
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN
019509946X
9780195099461
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tO0RDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 Rights in 1791 through the Gulf War of 1991. He concludes that the armed forces can justify refusal to divulge a narrow range of defense secrets, but that imposing other restrictions is unwise, unnecessary, and unconstitutional. In any event, as electronic communication becomes almost impossible to constrain, soldiers and journalists must learn how to respect each other's obligations in a democratic system.