Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 In Search of the Roots: Deconstructing the Institution of Freedom of the Press Chapter 3 Free Press for Social Control: From Bentham to American Pragmatists Chapter 4 Freedom to Reason, Right to Communicate Chapter 5 From the Republic of Letters to the Public of Letters to the Editor
Slavko Splichal is professor of mass communications and public opinion at the University of Ljubjana and director of the European Institute for Communication and Culture.
This demanding, well-supported, and carefully documented argument
requires very attentive reading. Recommended.
*CHOICE*
Raises some interesting issues regarding the conceptualization of
freedom of the press.
*Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly*
Splichal offers an insightful and richly illustrated historical
account of modern-day understandings of press freedom and
responsibility by tracing the liberal democratic ideal of news
media as 'public watchdogs' and Habermas' ideal of news media as
'public forums' back to Jeremy Bentham's and Immanuel Kant's
radically different conceptions of publicity.
*Journal of Communication*
Slavko Splichal's book is a thorough and brilliant rethinking, from
philosophical and historical perspectives, of the basic meanings of
press freedoms: why we have them, where we got them, and how they
have been captured, redefined, and—in some cases—twisted in a
modern Orwellian mode.
*Monroe Price, Oxford University*
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