Ownership and Regulation

Agent Coulson explains it all for you:


The Media:  The Tale of the Tape

• Newspaper Circulation
• Newspaper Readership by Age
• Newspaper Ad Revenue
• Newspaper Workforce
• Network Evening News
• Cable News
• Social Media

The FCC:

• FCC Ownership Rules
• Equal Time
• Fairness Doctrine (defunct)

Copyright

The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Opinion on the First Amendment

The Doctrine of Prior Restraint and "gag orders"

Who really uses FOIA?  (Hint:  it ain't Woodward and Bernstein).   Also see commercial uses.

The United States is unusual in its protection of free speech.

Comparative analysis of press freedom