Arguing that the First Amendment can be used on behalf of children to make sure television nurtures rather than harms them, a pathbreaking book offers workable ideas for an effective children's policy to limit commercial interests dominating programming today.
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From the Back Cover:
Broadcasters, parents, public officials, and teachers have all abandoned our children to a wasteland of vacuous, often violent television programing. In this eloquent book, Newton Minow and Craig LaMay persuasively demonstrate that this is a false application of the First Amendment. Broadcasters are required by law to serve the public interest, and the Supreme Court and Congress have said that service to children is a broadcaster's obligation under law, they remind us; the First Amendment can be used on behalf of children, to help make television a force that will nurture and not harm them.
About the Author:
Craig L. LaMay is associate director of the Public-Service Television Project.
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- PublisherHill & Wang Pub
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0809023113
- ISBN 13 9780809023110
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages237
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