Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom

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This insightful book examines how the original concept of publicity has been reduced to mean the right of media to access and print information. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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This demanding, well-supported, and carefully documented argument requires very attentive reading. Recommended. * Choice Reviews *
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, andin some casestwisted in a modern Orwellian mode. -- Monroe Price, Oxford University

Author Bio

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.