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Defining Documents in American History: The Free Press

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Liberty, Speech, and the Printed Word in Early Debates




From Areopagitica




Cato’s Letters: Of Freedom of Speech




John Peter Zenger Trial Transcript




James Madison on the Sedition Act of 1798




Debates over the Circulation of “Incendiary Publications”




Muckraking, Yellow Journalism, War, Sedition, and More




From How the Other Half Lives




The Sinking of the USS Maine




Lincoln Steffens: “The Shame of Minneapolis”




From The Jungle




Jane Addams: “Passing of the War Virtues”




Eugene V. Debs: Antiwar Speech




Remarks by Scott Nearing at His Trial




The Sedition Act of 1918




Schenck v. United States




Abrams v. United States




Gitlow v. New York




The Press Under a Free Government




Near v. Minnesota




A Free and Responsible Press




Smith-Mundt Act




Universal Declaration of Human Rights




William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech




Radio, Television, Movies, Tapes, and Other Media in Past Decades




On The War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast




Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry




A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy




One, Inc. v. Olesen




Newton Minow: “Television and the Public Interest”




Rachel Carson: Silent Spring




New York Times Co. v. Sullivan




Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC




New York Times Co. v. United States




Branzburg v. Hayes




United States v. Nixon




FCC v. Pacifica




Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al.




Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell




Digital Dilemmas and Other Issues Today




Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace




Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union




“Mission to Niger” and the Valerie Plame Affair




“The Military’s Media”




Manning-Lamo Chat Logs




Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission




Obsidian Financial LLC v. Cox




“McClatchy Editor Defends Publishing Al Qaeda Detail CNN, NY Times Held Back”




Fake News—Pope Francis’s Alleged Endorsement of Donald Trump




Snowden Email




Access Hollywood Tape of Donald Trump




From the John Podesta Email Hack




On Sinclair Broadcast Group and Media Monopolies




Trump-Putin Exchange regarding the Media; and Trump Tweet about Same




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography