Timothy E. Cook
Auteur van Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution
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There is a lot of overlap in the essays by the scholars, discussing possible approaches of how freedom of the press might work in theory, in two opposing models, (1) the marketplace of ideas versus (2) the watchdog model. These two models are explored in view of the First Amendment, which makes the whole publication rather specifically pertaining the the American idea of freedom of speech.
Published in 2003, just over a decade ago, as with many such specialized scholarly editions, the tooth of time can be felt. This more so, because contributors specifically refer to the way freedom of speech applies to the media. In 2003, the full development of electronic and especially social media was still to appear on the scene. Therefore, those parts of interest to the general readership are already out of date.
To the specialist reader, the essays describing history, both the past and recent past ("present") still contain interesting descriptions. of the Eighteenth Century press and modern libel law in the USA.… (meer)