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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Free and Regulated Press: Defending Coercive Independent Press Regulation 2020 by Dr Paul Wragg
This thought-provoking book provides a systematic reconceptualisation of press freedom and press regulation. In a major departure from orthodox norms the book argues that press freedom and coercive independent press regulation are not mutually exclusive; that newspapers could be made to compensate their victims through regulation without jeopardising their free speech rights; that their perceived public watchdog status does not exempt them; and ultimately that mandatory press regulation is not unconstitutional. In doing so the book questions our most deeply-held intuitive beliefs about the press and its role in society.