Dont Shoot the Messenger: How Our Growing Hatred of the Media Threatens Free Speech for All of Us
by By Sanford, Bruce W.
Category: Social Science , Media Studies

Selected by Brill's Content as one of its sixteen all-time media classics, this lively and richly storied work documents the dangerous consequences of the disintegration of trust between the public and the news media. In a masterful twenty-year retrospective, First Amendment attorney Bruce Sanford explores the root causes of our growing hostility toward the media and warns that we are killing one of our most treasured natural resources—the Fourth Estate.