First Amendment and the Fifth Estate » (6th Edition)

This casebook covers the law and regulation of electronic media (the "fifth estate") in the United States in a manner suitable for both law and communications students. The text covers decisions by Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the courts. Before detailing regulations, laws, and cases, the book introduces the legal, technological, and economic environment of electronic media regulation. The remainder of the work is divided into separate sections devoted to the law and regulation of electronic media alone and to law and regulation applicable to both print and electronic media. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

IntroductionThe Spectrum and its Utilization Justifications for Government Regulation Broadcast Licensing Legal Control of Broadcast Programming: Political Speech Legal Control of Broadcast Programming: Nonpolitical Speech Noncommercial Broadcasting Structural Regulation of Cable Television Content Regulation of Cable Television New Communications Technologies Media Concentration Copyright and Trademark Defamation Privacy Special Problems of Electronic Media Journalists