The new theology of the first amendment: Class privilege over democracy

Monthly Review

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 17-34

  McChesney, Robert W ^a  

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EID: 0007028308     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-049-10-1998-03_3     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. See C. Edwin Baker, "Giving the Audience What It Wants," The Ohio State Law Journal, vol. 58, no. 2 (1997); pp. 311-417.
2. For an elaboration of the ACLU position, see Laura W. Murphy, "We Refuse to Sacrifice the First Amendment in a Desperate Attempt to Adopt Reform Legislation," The Progressive, vol. 61, no. 12 (December, 1997), pp. 20-22.
3. Alexander Meiklejohn, Political Freedom: The Constitutional Powers of the People (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960).
4. See Thomas I. Emerson, Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment (New York: Random House, 1963).
5. See Richard N. Rosenfeld, American Aurora (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997); Stanley E. Flink, Sentinel Under Siege (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997).
6. See Richard N. Rosenfeld, American Aurora (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997); Stanley E. Flink, Sentinel Under Siege (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997).
7. See Dan Schiller, Theorizing Communication: A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
8. See Herbert J. Gans, Deciding What's News (New York: Pantheon, 1979).
9. See Jerome A. Barron, "Access to the Press - A New First Amendment Right," Harvard Law Review 80 (1967), pp. 1641-1678.
10. Miami Herald Publishing Company v. Tornillo, 94 S. Ct. 2831 (1974), pp. 2840, 2841.
11. I cover this entire episode and the ACLU's transformation in Robert W. McChesney, Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1993).
12. See David Kairys, "Freedom of Speech," The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique, ed. David Kairys (New York: Pantheon, 1982), pp. 140-171.
13. See Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, 5th ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997).
14. Angus Mackenzie, Secrets: The CIA's War at Home (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
15. A strong vocal opposition to the ACLU position has now emerged within the ACLU itself: today this is the most divisive question in the organization, a healthy development.