By Herbert N. Foerstel

From colonial occasions to the current, the media in the United States has been topic to censorship demanding situations and rules. This entire reference advisor to media censorship presents in-depth assurance of every media format?newspapers, magazines, films, radio, tv, and the Internet?all of which were, and remain, battlegrounds for First modification concerns. each one media layout is tested in-depth, from its origins and background via its glossy improvement, and lines dialogue of landmark incidents and situations. Foerstel, writer of Banned within the america, the acclaimed reference consultant to ebook censorship in colleges and public libraries, deals a short heritage of media censorship, examines in-depth the drama of 7 landmark incidents, and comprises 31 correct complaints. Complementing the quantity are own interviews with fashionable sufferers of media censorship, who provide human voice to the fight of the media to stay loose, and an exam of censorship of the coed press. attention-grabbing examples of media censorship abound, from Peter Zengers prerevolutionary trial for seditious libel to the fashionable tobacco industrys invocation of tortious interference to silence tv information and the present rash of web censorship incidents. bankruptcy 1 deals a quick historical past of censorship of every of the media kinds. bankruptcy 2 gains indepth research of 7 landmark media censorship incidents: the trial of John Peter Zenger, H. L. Mencken and the hatrack case, John Henry Faulk and the radio blacklist, revolutionary magazines expos^De at the H-bomb mystery, executive labeling of 3 documentary motion pictures as political propaganda, televisions tobacco wars, and Carnegie Mellons try and censor scholars entry to the net. bankruptcy three examines 31 media censorship proceedings from 1735 to 1997. bankruptcy four gains particular interviews with media figures interested in censorship concerns or cases?Paul Jarrico, Howard Morland, Peter Sussman, Daniel Schorr, Walter Cronkite, and Jerry Berman. Appendix A takes a glance at censorship and reaction in regards to the pupil press throughout the Nineteen Nineties, after the landmark Hazelwood choice in 1988?an very important subject for college kids in each highschool. Appendix B includes a source record of media advocacy and censorship corporations. a specific bibliography of books and digital assets completes the textual content. This quantity is of curiosity to school and school scholars, lecturers, librarians and students, and all people who are stricken by those an important First modification matters.