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Judging Journalism: The Turn Toward Privacy And Judicial Regulation Of The Press, Amy Gajda
Judging Journalism: The Turn Toward Privacy And Judicial Regulation Of The Press, Amy Gajda
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Extraterritorial Electioneering And The Globalization Of American Elections, Zephyr Teachout
Extraterritorial Electioneering And The Globalization Of American Elections, Zephyr Teachout
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This Essay explores a fascinating new truth: because of the Internet, governments, corporations, and citizens of other countries can now meaningfully participate in United States elections. They can phone bank, editorialize, and organize in ways that impact a candidate's image, the narrative structure of a campaign, and the mobilization of base support. Foreign governments can bankroll newspapers that will be read by millions of voters. Foreign companies can enlist employees in massive cross-continental email campaigns. Foreign activists can set up offline meetings and organize door-to-door campaigns in central Ohio. They can, in short, influence who wins and who loses. Depending …
Roasting The Pig To Burn Down The House: A Modest Proposal, Stuart M. Benjamin
Roasting The Pig To Burn Down The House: A Modest Proposal, Stuart M. Benjamin
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This essay addresses the question whether one should support regulatory proposals that one believes are, standing alone, bad public policy in the hope that they will do such harm that they will ultimately produce (likely unintended) good results. For instance, one may regard a set of proposed regulations as foolish and likely to hobble the industry regulated, but perhaps desirable if one believes that we would be better off without that industry. I argue that television broadcasting is such an industry, and thus that we should support new regulations that will make broadcasting unprofitable, to hasten its demise. But it …
Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, And Legal Protection In The Changing World Of American Journalism, Ronnell Andersen Jones
Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, And Legal Protection In The Changing World Of American Journalism, Ronnell Andersen Jones
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Forty years ago, at a time when the media were experiencing enormous professional change and a surge of subpoena activity, First Amendment scholar Vincent Blasi investigated the perceptions of members of the press and the impact of subpoenas within American newsrooms in a study that quickly came to be regarded as a watershed in media law. That empirical information is now a full generation old, and American journalism faces a new critical moment. The traditional press once again finds itself facing a surge of subpoenas and once again finds itself at a time of intense change—albeit on a different trajectory—as …
Campaign Finance Regulation: The Resilience Of The American Model, William Araiza
Campaign Finance Regulation: The Resilience Of The American Model, William Araiza
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