BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT BOOKS IN COMMUNICATIONS LAW Patrick J. Petit* The following is a selective bibliography of re- the United States, Germany, and the European cent books in communications law and related Convention on Human Rights. Chapter 1 dis- fields, published in late 1996 or 1997. Each work cusses the philosophical underpinnings of the is accompanied by an annotation describing con- right of privacy; Chapter 2 explores the history of tent and focus. Bibliographies and other useful the development of the right in each of the three information in appendices are also noted. systems. Subsequent chapters examine the struc- ture, coverage, protected scope, content, and who are the subjects of the right to secrecy in telecom- FREEDOM OF PRESS AND SPEECH munications. An extensive bibliography and table of cases is provided. KAHN, BRIAN AND CHARLES NEESONS, EDI- TORS. Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure. Cambridge, . SAJo, ANDRAS AND MONROE E. PRICE, EDI- Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. 374 p. TORS. Rights of Access to the Media. Boston, Mass.: Borders in Cyberspace is a collection of essays pro- Kluwer Law International, 1996. 303 p. duced by the Center for Law and Information Technology at Harvard Law School. The first part Rights of Access to the Media is a collection of es- of the collection consists of six essays which ad- says which examine the theoretical and practical dress the "where" of cyberspace and the legal is- aspects of media access in the United States and Europe. Part I contains essays by Monroe Price sues which arise because of its lack of borders: ju- risdiction, conflict of laws, cultural sovereignty, and Jean Cohen which address the dominant models of access theory. The six essays which extraterritorial enforcement, and alternative dis- comprise Part II discuss issues of access to the me- pute resolution. The second part addresses the dia in the United States and Europe. Specific es- effect of the Internet on transborder disputes in says address Germany, Central and Eastern Eu- the substantive areas of privacy, intellectual prop- rope, and the Czech Republic. The role of the erty, cryptography, consumer protection, and ac- cess to information. Each essay contains extensive courts in defining media access is the subject of Part III, with special emphasis given to the role of endnotes. judicial review in the developing democracies of Central Europe. Part IV concentrates on several Ruiz, BLANCA R. Privacy in Telecommunica- 'snapshots' of media development and access in tions: A European and an American Approach. Bos- the turbulent early days of democracy in Eastern ton, Mass., Kluwer Law International, 1997. 380 Europe, particularly Hungary and the Czech Re- p. public. Editor Monroe Price provides a conclu- Privacy in Telecommunications seeks to analyze sion to the piece. There are footnotes references the right to secrecy in telecommunications by within each essay, but no overall bibliography is comparing three different systems of protection: provided. * B.A., Benedictine University; J.D., Catholic University Library, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of of America; M.L.S., University of Maryland; Associate America, Washington, D.C. Director and Head of Public Services, KathrynJ. DuFour Law COMMLAW CONSPECTUS [Vol. 6 WALLACE, JONATHAN AND MARK MANGAN. experience, consisting largely of listener's recol- Sex, Lies, and Cyberspace. New York, N.Y.: Henry lections of the impact which radio had on their Holt, 1996. 304 p. daily lives. The recollections provide a vivid pic- Sex, Lies, and Cyberspace presents several case ture of the significant changes which the practice studies in successful and unsuccessful attempts to of radio listening brought to social and family in- censor the content of the Internet. The first case stitutions and patterns during the '20s, '30s, and study details the high-profile 1993 prosecution of '40s. The author provides separate chapters on Robert and Carleen Thomas, California residents the listening experiences of those who lived dur- who were charged with distributing Internet por- ing each of the three decades prior to the advent nography in Tennessee under that state's commu- of television. Chapter 4 explores the social im- nity standards. Additional chapters address at- pact of the mobility provided by the development tempts by the Church of Scientology to harass of automobile and portable radios. Chapter 5 fo- Internet critics, concerns about cryptography, cuses on listening patterns and practices within bomb-making information, and other difficult is- the family. Additional chapters relate the exper- sues raised by the Internet as a gateway of infor- iences of listening to particular types of program- mation with no institutional gatekeeper. Chapter ming: children's, crime and horror, music, com- 9, entitled "Compass for Cyberspace," outlines the edy, drama, etc. A short bibliography is included. author's recommendations for controlling truly il- legal content on the Internet without compromis- ing the protections of the First Amendment. A BOUNDS, J. DENNIS. Perry Mason: The Author- short bibliography and endnotes are included. ship and Reproduction of a Popular Hero. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 213 p. Bound's work studies the famous lawyer/detec- MEDIA MASS tive as a cultural icon and his extraordinary popu- larity in virtually in every media format. Separate APPLEGATE, EDD. Print and BroadcastJournal- ism: A Critical Examination. Westport, Conn.: chapters discuss the portrayal of Mason in Earl Praeger Publishers, 1996. 211 p. Stanley Gardener's 82 novels, 6 theatrical motion Applegate's book surveys a variety of both cur- pictures, 3,221 radio episodes, 271 television epi- rent and enduring issues in print and broadcast sodes, and more than twenty made-for-TV movies. journalism. Chapters 1 through 5 explore con- Bound examines the basic structure of a Perry Ma- son "case" and analyzes the differing treatments ceptual issues about the purposes of the media, the concept of news, balance and objectivity, the these elements receive in their various media ad- role of minorities, and the theoretical models for aptations. Chapter 6, subtitled the "Transmedia Poetics of Perry Mason," explores the common the press and media. The remaining chapters ex- amine ethical issues, freedom of the press, and core of the Mason narrative. The author provides a number of tables, endnotes, and eleven pages of journalism education. The appendixes contain the text of many source documents dealing with photographs. The appendix contains an exten- media principles of operation: the NAB Radio sive listing of the Perry Mason "cases" adapted by the various media. A substantial bibliography of Code, the NAB Television Code, the Voluntary articles and studies is also included. Movie Rating System, and the codes of ethics and professional conduct for a wide variety of organi- zations dealing with newspapers, magazines, ad- CLOUD, STANLEY AND LYNNE OLSON. The vertising, and public relations. A short bibliogra- Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast phy is also included. Journalism. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. 445 p. BARFIELD, RAY. Listening to Radio: 1920-1950. Cloud and Olson, journalists themselves, pro- Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1996. 218 p. vide a vivid account of the early days of broadcast Listening to Radio does not focus on the content journalism and the immense contribution of Ed- of radio programming, but on the dynamics of ward R. Murrow and that gifted group of report- the actual activity of listening to this new medium. ers he recruited for CBS radio and television. Barfield's book is an oral history of the listening Murrow's "Boys" included such renowned corre- 1998] RECENT BOOKS IN COMMUNICATIONS LAW spondents as William L. Shirer, Howard K. Smith, HiwmEs, MIcHELE. Radio Voices: American Charles Collingwood, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Broadcasting, 1922-1952. Minneapolis, Minn.: Uni- Hottelot, and Winston Burdett. One strength of versity of Minnesota Press, 1997. 353 p. Cloud and Olson's book is the attention they give Radio Voices examines the origins and growth of to the achievement of CBS reporters who did not radio broadcasting not from the viewpoint of its achieve the same popular recognition accorded technological development, but from the social the headliners. They recognize the contributions and cultural context it expressed and helped cre- of Larry LaSueur, Bill Downs, Gene Ryder, ate. Hilmes addresses a variety of themes such as Charles Shaw, Ned Calmer, and the sole female the beginnings of mass culture, advertising and member of the "Boys," Mary Marvin Breckinridge. commercialism, and the shifting roles and percep- Murrow's Boys provides a compelling narrative of tions of gender, race, and social class. Chapter 1 the influence of Murrow and his correspondents focuses on the assimilation of immigrant cultures on the development of radio as an increasingly as portrayed and influenced by the success of The important source of news before and during Rise of the Goldbergs. Chapter 3 addresses the rise World War II. The book follows Murrow and his of the enduring serial/series narrative form and crew as they retool - with considerable misgiv- the problematic portrayal of race which accompa- ings and ambivalence - for the requirements of nied the enormous popularity of Amos 'n' Andy. the new medium of television. Endnotes, a bibli- Chapters 5 and 6 examine programming for wo- ography,