Media Access and the First Amendment's Romantic Tradition

Jerome Barron must be regarded as the legal profession's leading advocate of a legally enforceable public right of access to use the communication media-both printed and electronic. This book, above all, is an advocacy of that right and a survey of the need for public access. Professor Barron further discusses certain problems that an access right might raise-such as the allocation of access time and the regulation of offensiveness in broadcasting-and explores various aspects of these problems. As advocacy, the book is much more persuasive of the need for access to the contemporary media than it is of the prospects for establishing such a right.