The Media and Democracy
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: May 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780745608044
Subjects: Human rights; Media, information & communication industries; Political science & theory; Political aspects; Mass media; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Press and politics; Censorship; Journalism; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; MASS MEDIA_POLITICAL ASPECTS; Political Science / Censorship; Freedom of the press
First sentence: On a drizzly mid-December morning in 1792, Thomas Paine, citizen extraordinary and author of Rights of Man, was brought to trial in absentia at the Guildhall in London, charged with propagating 'seditious libel'.