Denis McQuail, “Perspectives on Mass Communication” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is It Possible to Have a Free Press?
Murdock: In the last ten years, you've got a stronger sense of a global journalistic profession that share with each other aspirations and problems. But on the other hand, there is stronge evidence ofa public, grass roots resistance to too much freedom, as it were. And this is true of the united states, as far as the evidence goes, perhaps more so than in other places. It isn't only the powers that be that want to limit the activities of the press. There is,. in varying degrees, popular support for this view.
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