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First Amendment and the Fifth Estate: Regulation of Electronic Mass Media » (7th Edition)

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Authors: T. Barton Carter, Marc A. Franklin, Jay B. Wright
ISBN-13: 9781599412276, ISBN-10: 1599412276
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: West Group
Date Published: December 2007
Edition: 7th Edition

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Author Biography: T. Barton Carter

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Table of Contents

Chapter  1.   Introduction
Chapter  2.   The Spectrum and its Utilization
Chapter  3.   Justifications for Government Regulation
Chapter  4.   Broadcast Licensing
Chapter  5.   Legal Control of Broadcast Programming: Political Speech
Chapter  6.   Legal Control of Broadcast Programming: Nonpolitical Speech
Chapter  7.   Noncommercial Broadcasting
Chapter  8.   Structural Regulation of Cable Television
Chapter  9.   Content Regulation of Cable Television
Chapter 10.  New Communications Technologies
Chapter 11.  Media Concentration
Chapter 12.  Copyright and Trademark
Chapter 13.  Defamation
Chapter 14.  Privacy
Chapter 15.  Special Problems of Electronic Media Journalists

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