title: Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)
author:  Slavko Splichal 
description: This demanding, well-supported, and carefully documented argument requires very attentive reading. Recommended. (<i>CHOICE</i>)<br /><br />Raises some interesting issues regarding the conceptualization of freedom of the press. (<i>Journalism &amp; Mass Communication Quarterly</i>)<br /><br />Splichal offers an insightful and richly illustrated historical account of modern-day understandings of press freedom and responsibility by tracing the liberal democratic ideal of news media as 'public watchdogs' and Habermas' ideal of news media as 'public forums' back to Jeremy Bentham's and Immanuel Kant's radically different conceptions of publicity. (<i>Journal of Communication</i>)<br /><br />Slavko Splichal's book is a thorough and brilliant rethinking, from philosophical and historical perspectives, of the basic meanings of press freedoms: why we have them, where we got them, and how they have been captured, redefined, andin some casestwisted in a modern Orwellian mode. (Monroe Price, Oxford University)
zlib_text: Journalism Quarterly
  Dewlted 10 Inf1NdgatlfHiJ Studia in the Field 01 Communication.
  VOLUME 25
  JUNE 1948
  NUIIBER 2
  The Role of Criticism
  In the Management of Mass Media
  By Paul F. Lazarsfeld
  This provocative article is based on addresses given by
  Dr. Lazarsfeld last winter at the AASDJ-AATJ con-
  ventions and at the Illinois Conference on Communica-
  tions Research. It is one of 16 papers in the report
  of the Illinois meeting, to be published this month in
  book form. The author is director of the Bureau of
  Applied
  Social
  Research
  at
  Columbia
  University.
  I
  F THERE is one institutional disease
  to which the media of mass com-
  munication seem particularly subject,
  it is a nervous reaction to criticism. As
  a student of the mass media I have
  been continually struck and occasional-
  ly puzzled by this reaction, for it is the
  media themselves which so vigorously
  defend
  principles
  guaranteeing
  the
  right to criticize.
  Manifestations
  of
  this
  nervousness
  are not difficult to point out. There are
  trac