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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