"[This] AP stylebook will help [the reader] master the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, word and numeral usage, and use of 'more than' or 'over'--Back cover.
Discusses landmark court cases involving conflict between the government and the media. Includes such cases as Watergate, the invasion of Grenada, N.Y. Times vs. Sullivan and others.
Explains what freedom of the press is, its history in colonial times, its meaning in the Constitution, and current controversial issues challenging the boundaries of this freedom.
Presents an overview of the 1960 Supreme Court case that debated an advertisement place in the "New York Times" newspaper asking readers to support equal rights for African Americans in the South, and includes discussion of the parameters of the case, as well as the workings of the Supreme Court.
