ERIC Number: ED139008
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Publication Date: 1975-Oct
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Annotated Bibliography; Freedom of Information Center Reports and Summary Papers.
Freedom of Information Center, Columbia, MO.
This bibliography lists and annotates almost 400 information reports, opinion papers, and summary papers dealing with freedom of information. Topics covered include the nature of press freedom and increased press efforts toward more open access to information; the press situation in many foreign countries, including France, Sweden, Communist China, India, Kenya, Cuba, Vietnam, and South Africa; the student press; the governmental "executive privilege" to withhold information; the role of the government publicist; the relationships of former presidents with the press; the accuracy of polling devices and the effect of their findings on the voting public; television coverage of political campaigns; criticisms of broadcast news; regulations of sex, violence, and children's programming on television; subscription television; film and book censorship; pressures on librarians; the press and the courts; Supreme Court decisions regarding obscenity; the influence of ethical and social responsibilities on advertising and selling practices; the economic effects of advertising; and the fluctuating fortunes of mass circulation magazines. (GW)
Publication Type: Reference Materials - Bibliographies
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Authoring Institution: Freedom of Information Center, Columbia, MO.
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