First Freedom

Bryce W. Rucker is Professor of Journalism, and Howard Rusk Long is Chairman of the Department of Journalism at Southern Illinois University.

“Documents afresh the industry’s formidable restraints on compe­tition.”              —Journalism Quarterly  “The most useful compendium in recent print of the economic and political problems of American journalism… a valuable reference work for every serious student of contemporary problems in American journalism.”—Columbia Journalism Review“Proba­bly the most important book in its field since the Hutchins Commission’s Free and Responsible Press, issued more than 20years ago.”—Christian Century