Liberal Constraints on Private Power?: Reflections on the Origins and Rationale of Access Regulation
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Description
The long debate over federal regulation of commercial broadcasting has focused largely on constitutional, administrative, technological, and economic questions. But the fairness doctrine, right-of-reply laws, and equal opportunity provisions cry out for a treatment that is simultaneously more historical and more theoretical. They raise questions as fundamental as, What are the legitimate purposes and proper limits of state action? What is the basic rationale for press immunity from government control? For what purposes can this special freedom be curtailed? Even a superficial answer to such questions presupposes a historical understanding of the political traditions encoded into the U.S. Constitution, not to mention a theoretical analysis of the preconditions for effective democratic government.
Source Publication
Democracy and the Mass Media: A Collection of Essays
Source Editors/Authors
Judith Lichtenberg
Publication Date
1990
Recommended Citation
Holmes, Stephen, "Liberal Constraints on Private Power?: Reflections on the Origins and Rationale of Access Regulation" (1990). Faculty Chapters. 809.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/809
