Freedom of Speech and Society: A Social Approach to Freedom of Expression
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sociology—and in the process offers a fresh perspective that challenges long-held orthodoxies. But enough. For a truly rewarding and original discussion of freedom of expression theory, one I know will inform and delight, I will now let Dr. Melkonian do the talking.

– Robert Balin
Partner and Media Practice Chair, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP,
and Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School

Endnotes

1.  Or as The New York Times more tartly puts it, “[t]he growing number of misrepresentations appear to reflect a calculation in both parties that shame is overrated.” Facts Take Beating in Acceptance Speeches, N.Y. Times, A13 (Aug. 31, 2012).

2.  New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 270 (1964).