Democracy and the Mass Media: A Collection of Essays Book

Notes on contributors; Introduction Judith Lichenberg;

1. Liberal constraints on private power?; Reflections on the origins and rationale of access regulation Stephen Holmes;
2. Liberalism and free speech David Kelly and Roger Donway;
3. Foundations and limits of freedom of the press Judith Lichenberg;
4. Why the State? Owen Fiss;
5. Practices of toleration Onora O'Neill;
6. Access in a post-social responsibility age Carl Sessions Stepp;
7. Who decides? Fredrick Schauer;
8. Four criticisms of press ethics Jeffery B. Abramson;
9. Political communication systems and democratic values Michael Gurevitch and Jay Blumler;
10. Mass communications policy: where we are and where we should be going Henry Geller;
11. Content regulation reconsidered Thomas M. Scanlon;
12. The rationale of public regulation of the media Lee Bollinger;
13. The role of a free press in strengthening democracy Sanford J. Ungar.