Messages

Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google

Brian Winston

430 pages, parution le 09/12/2005

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Free expression is in trouble. It can no longer be certain of its best protection -- "the general will of the people"--as Alexander Hamilton put it over two centuries ago. Today, the public, faced with the excesses of tabloid journalism and explicitness of all kinds in other media, appears no longer to be convinced that free expression is a crucial foundation of civil society. Yet, for all its faults, free expression under the law has, as Churchill once said of democracy, to be better than any alternative system.

Messages is a search for the origins of media forms, from print and stage to photography, film and broadcasting. With a wealth of illuminating anecdotes and quotations, Brian Winston clearly and forcefully argues, in jargon-free language, that the development of mass media has been an essential engine underpinning all human rights and driving the Western concept of the individual.

L'auteur - Brian Winston

Brian Winston, currently Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, worked as a Producer/Director on Granada TV's World in Action from 1963-1966. He has previously worked for the BBC and WNET (New York) where he won an Emmy for documentary script writing in 1985, been a columnist on Ink, The Soho Weekly News, and The Listener, co-produced a Canadian feature film and been a governor of the BFI. Messages is his thirteenth book.

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Print
Images, Spectacle and Sound
Convergence
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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Brian Winston
Parution	09/12/2005
Nb. de pages	430
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	670g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415364577
ISBN13	978-0-415-36457-7