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Title: Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information

The News the Media Use

by Shannon Martin E. (Author)
©2008 Textbook X, 266 Pages
Media and Communication
Series: Mediating American History, Volume 1

Summary

The Freedom of Information Act was signed into law during the last half of the twentieth century to ensure public access to government documents. In this book, Shannon E. Martin details the history that led to the law’s enactment and the resulting discoveries in government repositories over the past fifty years. In light of the ongoing national security war on terror, this is a timely and historical overview of the accessibility of government-held information.

Details

Pages
X, 266
Year
2008
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820486345
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820481814
Language
English
Keywords
USA Reporter Informationsfreiheit Governmment document News media
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2008. X, 266 pp.

Biographical notes

Shannon Martin E. (Author)

The Author: Shannon E. Martin is Professor of Communication at the University of Maine. She is the author of Bits, Bytes and Big Brother: Federal Information Control in the Technological Age (1995) and Post-Vietnam Confrontations: U.S. Wars and the Media in Primary Documents (2005). She is also co-author with Kathleen A. Hansen of Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link (1998), and co-editor with David Copeland of The Function of Newspapers in Society: A Global Perspective (2003).

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