The history and rationale of the first amendment -- First amendment methodology -- Categories of expression and the scope of first amendment protection -- Libel and the mass media -- Privacy and the press -- Newsgathering rights -- Freedom of information: access to news of government -- Public access to the media -- Business issues -- Selected problems of media law -- The regulation of broadcasting -- Legal controls on political and public issue programming -- Regulating obscenity and indecency in broadcasting before the FCC and the federal courts -- Regulatory and first amendment issues in cable television

1. Press Law -- United States -- Cases
2. Telecommunication -- Law and Legislation -- United States -- Cases