The Battle to Control Broadcast News: Who Owns the First Amendment?

by Hugh Carter Donahue

The Battle to Control Broadcast News chronicles the power plays, fights, betrayals, and skirmishes behind the use and misuse of both the Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to air news on controversial issues and to provide a "balance" in their programming, and the Equal Time Law, which governs political programming and claims that federal law cannot require broadcasters to carry all candidates. Hugh Donahue argues that these restrictions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262040999
• ISBN13: 9780262040990
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher