The Pay for Play Paradigm and the Media's Unwitting Constitutional Surrender

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar II

Abstract

This project examines the legal, ethical and policy implications of the mainstream news media’s increasing willingness to intermingle and integrate commercial content with their own staff-produced news content. It will argue, among other things, that by continuing to relinquish control to third parties and by continuing to reduce editorial decisions to simple economic calculations, news organizations run the risk of sacrificing the one thing that entitles them to robust constitutional protection in the first place.

Author

• Erik Ugland, Marquette University