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Kelly, Frank K. – NUEA Spectator, 1970
A speech presented at the Galaxy Conference, December 1969, concerns the need for both constructive criticism of the press and freedom of expression for the mass media. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Freedom of Speech, Mass Media, Press Opinion

Gunaratne, Shelton A. – 1975
This issue of "Journalism Monographs" deals specifically with the state of newspaper journalism in Sri Lanka, formerly the Dominion of Ceylon. The country's literacy rate is about 81 percent. The first section of this article is a general discussion of newspaper journalism in Sri Lanka, examining historical background and such press…
Descriptors: Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Journalism, News Reporting
Olasky, Marvin N. – 1987
Staggered by some recent libel verdicts, many journalists are neglecting lessons about press freedom learned at great cost during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Journalists then learned that state power over the press, residing in the hands of either censors or judges, leads to a decrease in press freedom. In 1986, though, many media…
Descriptors: Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Journalism, Journalism History

Del Polito, Carolyn M. – Communication Education, 1980
Presents an annotated bibliography of 19 items from ERIC identifying troublesome paradoxes regarding the media and freedom of expression. Items are categorized by issues identified as relevant to radio and television, commercial advertising, and the press. (JMF)
Descriptors: Advertising, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, News Media
Olasky, Marvin N. – 1986
While the typical pantheon of journalism history heroes is made up almost entirely of individuals who campaigned for more governmental regulation and increased social liberalism, there is also an opposing tradition in American journalism, one based on the premise that governmental cures are in most cases worse than the diseases they are designed…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Journalism, News Reporting, Newspapers
Lawhorne, Clifton O. – 1982
A descriptive study based on Egyptian law, printed sources, and interviews clarifies our picture of the Egyptian Press by examining its status as a constitutionally mandated "Fourth Estate." The constitutional amendment, the resultant Egyptian Press Law, and the "Law Of Shame" (all passed in 1980), are designed to create a…
Descriptors: Censorship, Developing Nations, Freedom of Speech, Journalism
American Journalism Historians' Association. – 1990
The following 11 papers, on a variety of topics, were given at the 1990 meeting of the American Journalism Historians' Association: (1) "They Hang Editors Don't They?: Free Speech and Free Press Issues in the Haymarket Case, 1886" (Nathaniel Hong); (2) "G. K. Chesterton and the British Press, 1911-1933" (Dean Rapp); (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Freedom of Speech, Journalism History, Newspapers
Smith, Victoria – 1986
Through a case study of Minnesota daily newspaper editorials, this paper examines the extent to which one state's newspapers championed the freedoms of speech and press during the national crisis of World War I. The historical relationship of the press and First Amendment defense is briefly reviewed. Guided by the question "How did the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Editorials, Freedom of Speech, Journalism

Hollstein, Milton – Journalism Quarterly, 1977
Examines the media's response to Utah Congressional Representative Allan T. Howe's arrest for the misdemeanor charge of soliciting. (KS)
Descriptors: Censorship, Ethics, Freedom of Speech, Moral Values

Hansen, Judy P.; Bishop, Robert L. – Journalism Quarterly, 1981
Notes that, when in 1956-58, the government of Taiwan relaxed its press controls, it experienced results similar to those on mainland China. (FL)
Descriptors: Censorship, Foreign Countries, Freedom of Speech, Journalism
Wells, Tullos – Community College Journalist, 1980
Discusses two decisions of the United States Supreme Court that elevated the public's First Amendment rights over those of the press: Red Lion Broadcasting v FCC (1969) and Miami Herald v Tornillo (1974). (AEA)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech
Chu, Leonard L. – 1982
In theory, the Chinese Communist press is required to engage in criticism of other institutions and of Party or government bureaucrats through its news coverage and self-criticism of its own mistakes in response to criticism from readers. In practice, Party control of the press prevents any effective criticism or self-criticism. Basically, the…
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Communism, Foreign Countries, Freedom of Speech
Smith, Jeffery A. – 1981
The career of James Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's older brother, provides a case study in the use of polemics for a free press. A printer who actively courted controversy, Franklin found it necessary to use an unusual variety of strategies and justifications to evade or overcome potential legal, religious, and economic restraints. He demonstrated…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, History
Lowenstein, Ralph L. – 1973
The Twentieth Century Fund is currently suggesting a National News Council (tentatively scheduled to be in operation by the end of 1973), which would be independent of both the government and the craft of journalism and would report to the public both on the accuracy of news coverage and on the threat, real and potential, against freedom of the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Freedom of Speech, Journalism, National Organizations

Tyrmand, Leopold – American Scholar, 1975
Article evaluated the merits and faults of the news media and attempted to illustrate the ominously growing conflict between American society and its communication media. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Censorship, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Information Processing