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Abandoned in the Wasteland
Children, Television, & the First Amendment
Author: Newton Minow and Craig LaMay
Abandoned in the Wasteland
$21.00
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Winner of the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association
Two well-known experts-Newton N. Minow is a former chairperson of the FCC-suggest bold new ways to think about television and its influence on American life and, most urgently, on American children. The authors argue that to defend an unrestricted freedom to broadcast by invoking the First Ammendent is an improper use of constitutional principle. They remind us that broadcasters are required by law to serve the public interest, and that the Supreme Court and Congress have affirmed that service to children is a broadcaster's legal obligation.
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Hill and Wang
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9780809015894