| PREFACE |
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| INTRODUCTION - The Modern Media |
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| PART ONE The Framers of the First Amendment and the Free Press |
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| 1. Thomas Emerson Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment |
| 2. Vincent Blasi The Checking Value in the First Amendment |
| 3. Norman Rosenberg Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel |
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| PART TWO The Media and Politicians |
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| 4. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein All the President's Men |
| 5. Paul Taylor See How They Run |
| 6. Larry Sabato Feeding Frenzy |
| 7. Benjamin Bradlee A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures |
| 8. Stephen Frantzich September 11th and the Bush Presidency: Rally Around the Rubble |
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| PART THREE The Media and Campaigns |
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| 9. Daniel Shea and John Michael Burton Campaign Craft |
| 10. Katherine Q. Seelye Making of the Digital Press Corps, 2004 |
| 11. Richard Davis Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process |
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| PART FOUR Media Coverage of War, Foreign Affairs, and National Security |
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| 12. Benjamin Bradlee A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures |
| 13. Danny Schechter Information Warriors: From the News Dissector's Weblog |
| 14. Jake Lynch Tips for Covering Conflict |
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| PART FIVE Entertainment Media and Politics |
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| 15. Irwin Sonny Fox Using Soap Operas to Confront the World's Population Problem |
| 16. Emily Nussbaum When a TV Network Could Be Cynical About a War |
| 17. Elizabeth Jensen Public Broadcasting and Political Balance: A New Twist |
| 18. César G. Soriano Politics Creates a Disturbance in the Force |
| 19. David Robb Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies |
| 20. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 |
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| PART SIX The "New Media" |
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| 21. Alessandra Stanley No Jokes or Spin. It's Time (Gasp) to Talk |
| 22. Sheryl Gay Stolberg Laugh and the Voters Laugh with You, or at Least at You |
| 23. John Borland Bloggers Drive Hoax Probe into Bush Memos |
| 24. Jim VandeHei Blogs Attack From Left as Democrats Reach for Center |
| 25. Eugene Volokh You Can Blog, But You Can't Hide |
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| PART SEVEN Assessing the Media |
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| 26. Michael Parenti Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media |
| 27. W. Lance Bennett, from News: The Politics of Illusion |
| 28. Ted Koppel And Now, a Word for our Demographic |
| 29. Michael Schudson The Social Origins of Press Cynicism |
| 30. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein All the President's Men |
| 31. David Brinkley On Being an Anchorman |
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| PART EIGHT The Media and the Law: Private Efforts to Restrict the Free Press |
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| 32. New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) |
| 33. Time Inc. v. Hill (1967) |
| 34. Gertz v. Welch Inc. (1974) |
| 35. Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988) |
| 36. Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. (1991) |
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| PART NINE The Media and the Law: Public Efforts to Restrict or Regulate the Free Press |
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| 37. Grosjean v. American Press Co. (1936) |
| 38. Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC (1969) |
| 39. New York Times v. United States (1971) |
| 40. Branzburg v. Hayes (1972) |
| 41. Miami Herald v. Tornillo (1974) |
| 42. Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia (1980) |
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| CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
