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Most Americans look at a free press essential to democratic contemporary society - either as an unbiased watchdog against governmental maltreatment of ability or as a wide-open market of ideas. But few understand that far-reaching public policies have shaped the news headlines citizens receive. In an age when mass communication amounts from independent wire channels to the Internet, it is vital to examine these policies and their results if we want the media to continue fulfilling their role. Freeing the Presses offers a pathbreaking inquiry in to the theory and practice of flexibility of the press at a critical time in the growing overlap between modern multimedia and political debate. Six politics communication scholars draw upon background, sociology, political technology, legal beliefs, and journalism to investigate if the freedoms and privileges directed at the news multimedia and also to reporters actually produce the results we expect. Their debate covers past, present, and future multimedia performance and engages an array of provocative questions.
