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Bankrupt Marketplace: First Amendment Theory And The 2016 Presidential Election, Leonard M. Niehoff
Bankrupt Marketplace: First Amendment Theory And The 2016 Presidential Election, Leonard M. Niehoff
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In this article I advance two arguments. The first is that 2016 was a particularly important year for freedom of speech and the press, although not for conventional reasons. The second is that hte events of 2016 revealed that one of the essential components of our democracy - the central role that free expression plays in the democratic process - is in a state of serious dysfunction, if not crisis.