TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillmor,Donald M.
AU  - Barron,Jerome A.
TI  - Mass communication law: cases and comment / 
U1  - 343.009 22
PY  - 1974///
CY  - St. Paul, Minn.
PB  - West Pub. Co.
KW  - Press law
KW  - United States
KW  - Cases
KW  - Telecommunication
KW  - Law and legislation
N1  - Content
Chapter I. The First Amendment Impact on mass Communication: The theory, the Practice and the problems
1. Introduction to Study of the First Amendment 
2. The Development of the Law of Freedom of Speech and Press in the Supreme Court 
3. The Legal Constitutional meaning of Freedom Press 
4. The Meaning of Protected Speech under first Amendment

Chapter II. Libel and Newsman
1. The Private Law of Libel
2. The Public Law of Libel : Fair Comment and Criticism
3. Mitigating Factors

Chapter 3. Privacy and the Press
1. Defining   the General Standard 
2. The Conflict between Privacy and Access to Information
3. Privacy and Reporter's Tape recorded Telephone Messages

Chapter IV. The Puzzle of Pornography
1. The Urge to Censor
2. The Development of Obscenity Law in America
3. Roth: a Landmark Case
4. Film Censorship
5. Social Value Test: What is Redeeming Social Importance ?
6. Conduct : The Ginzburg Aberration
7. Judicial Discord
8. Definition Dilemma
9. Additional Tests : Juveniles and Privacy
10. Burger Court Revisionism
11. The Future of Obscenity-Whatever it is

Chapter V. Free Press and Fair Trial
1. The Law and Literature of Free Press and Fair Trial 
2. The Camera in the Courtroom 
3. Contempt and Mass Media

Chapter VI. Newsman Privilege 
1. The Controversy about the reporter's Right to protect His Sources
2. State Shield Laws: The Statutory Basis for newsman privilege
3. The Constitutional Status of Newman's privilege 
4. Problems in defining and Establishing Legal Protection for Newsman's privilege

Chapter VII. Freedom of Information : Access to Governmental Information-Federal State
1. The Freedom of Information Act : Securing Information from the Federal Government
2. Press-Governmental Consent to Restrict Access and the journal it's Right of Access to  information
3. A comment on State Laws on Access to Information and Open Public Meetings 

Chapter VIII. Selected Problems of Law and Journalism
1. A right of Access and Reply to the press?
2. Freedom to Travel and Newsman 
3. Influencing the Opinion Process : Lobbying, Corrupt Practices and Regulation of Campaign Financing
4. The Press and the Antitrust Laws
5. The Media and the Labor Laws 
6. The Law and Regulation of Advertising 
7. Selected Legal Aspects of Copyright in the Mass media 

Chapter IX. The Regulation of Radio and Television Broadcasting : Some Problems of Law, Technology and Policy
1. Introduction : The Rationale of Broadcast Regulation
2. The FCC and the Programming Responsibility of Licenses : The Concept of "Balanced" Programming 
3. Broadcasting and Political Debates: &315 and the "Equal Time" Requirement
4. The "Fairness" Doctrine and Access to Broadcasting
5. The Problem of Regulating obscenity in Broadcast Programming 
etc; Includes bibliographical references
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