The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate, The Law of Mass Media

By Jay Wright, Amy Sanders, T. Barton Carter, et al.

This law school casebook provides a detailed examination of the law of mass media, providing principle cases, court opinions, text, and research materials. Topics include discussions of the American legal system, introduction to freedom of expression, defamation, privacy, liability for emotional and physical harm, copyright and trademark, national security, obscenity, advertising regulation, press coverage of the administration of justice, confidentiality in newsgathering, newsgathering from non-judicial public sources, ownership of the media and related problems, access to the media, introduction to broadcasting, legal control of broadcast programming: political speech, legal control of broadcast programming, nonpolitical speech, and cable and new technologies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599414023
• ISBN13: 9781599414027
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Foundation Press
• Length: 1312 Pages
• Weight: 5.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 2.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Fourth Estate Discussion at its Best

Although I have recently switched to another textbook for my Media Law class, I greatly enjoyed using as a class text Carter's First Amendment and the Fourth Estate. The text lent itself to excellent discussions in class and readily provided excellent case studies and reading material for the students. (Currently I use two texts for such diversity). My only concern is that, at an undergraduate level, the book is unclear on direction for the student not versed in legal and analytical thinking, and like all comphrehensive and advanced texts, a bit too overwhelming academically for freshmen and sophomores. I would highly recommend the text, however, for graduate studies in media law.