Privatization, not the Bill of Rights, caused censorship’s decline

Evidence

It was privatization more than the Bill of Rights that led to the decline of censorship: “Decline in the practice of reading aloud led to a decline in the importance of censorship. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 647

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters the common Whig narrative that the First Amendment caused censorship’s decline; resonates with Innis’s spatial-bias thesis. — connects to: Free press rights replaced speaking rights with the right to be spoken to — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 633; Television only intensified pre-existing privatization and image permeation — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 556
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 647

Broader Connections

• Free press rights replaced speaking rights with the right to be spoken to #complicates (0.70) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 633