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The Judith Miller Case And The Relationship Between Reporter And Source: Competing Visions Of The Media's Role And Function, Daniel Joyce Mar 2007

The Judith Miller Case And The Relationship Between Reporter And Source: Competing Visions Of The Media's Role And Function, Daniel Joyce

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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From Habermas To "Get Rich Or Die Tryin": Hip Hop, The Telecommunications Act Of 1996, And The Black Public Sphere, Akilah N. Folami Jan 2007

From Habermas To "Get Rich Or Die Tryin": Hip Hop, The Telecommunications Act Of 1996, And The Black Public Sphere, Akilah N. Folami

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article explores the manner in which gangsta rappers, who are primarily young urban Black men, navigate the mass media and rap's commercialization of the gangsta image to continue to provide seeds of political expression and resistance to that image. While other scholars have considered the political nature of rap in the context of the First Amendment, this Article's approach is unique in that it is the first to explore such concepts through the lenses of Habermas' ideal public sphere and those of his critics. While many have written gangsta rap off as being commercially co-opted or useless given its …