Report | America’s Fourth Estate: History and Law

Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley publishes an illuminating article on how antimonopoly has been a fundamental aspect of much of the federal regulation since the founding of the United States.

This report details the extensive history of federal media regulation in the United States. Examining historic media regulation helps us see what robust public policy is possible and makes clear that, like all markets, the media industry is constructed by the state, and the practices that corporations use to compete and how they

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