Media Scandals

by Alan Bisbort

Book Overview

This fascinating volume offers an overview of the most influential and notorious media scandals, from newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger's groundbreaking 1735 trial for printing and publishing false, scandalous, malicious and seditious statements to Dr. Phil McGraw's 2008 thwarted attempt to force his television cameras inside Britney Spears' hospital room, from the attempts to ban literature by the likes of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Henry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313347654
• ISBN13: 9780313347658
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"