Free Expression and Censorship in America

Despite the end of the Cold War America''s national security apparatus for controlling information has remained in place. However sex and secularism are emerging as the major targets of censorship. Federal decency standards have been imposed on art the broadcast media and the Internet. Virtually every major political issue of the 1990s (abortion campaign finance violence on TV homosexuality indecency on the Internet) has First Amendment implications and all are included in this comprehensive encyclopedia.This work covers the full history of America''s struggle for free expression as well as the contemporary dynamics represented by pop figures like Frank Zappa Howard Stern and Danny Goldberg and politicians like Jesse Helms and Don Edwards. It goes beyond other academic works of its kind by recognizing the primacy of the mass media and the Internet in defining the modern contours of the First Amendment.