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Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open : A Free Press for a New Century (Inalienable Rights)

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Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendmentboth an erudite scholar and elegant advocate In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly clear terms However, over the course of American history, Bollinger notes, the idea of press freedom has evolved, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing anuninhibited, robust and wideopenpublic discourse But even during the twentieth century, government continually tried to erect barriers: the sedition laws of World War One, the use of libel law, the Pentagon Papers case, and efforts to limit press access to information Bollinger utilizes this history to explore the meaning of freedom of the press in our globalized, internetdominated era As he shows, we have