NOTES
- Interview with Robert V. Hudson, Association for Education in Journalism Archive, State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Typed transcript, pp. 2–3.
- Harold L. Nelson's remarks on the occasion of Siebert's award are in “Fredrick S. Siebert Honored,” Journalism History, 3 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 65, 85.
- (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952).
- (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1957), co-authored with Theodore B. Peterson and Wilbur Schramm.
- This interview along with two autobiographical documents—“A Belated Diary,” an account of Siebert's youth, and “My Experiences with the First Amendment”—have been contributed to the AEJ Archive, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, to supplement the earlier interview by Robert V. Hudson, cited above.
- Proposition I reads: “The extent of government control of the press depends on the nature of the relationship of the government to those subject to the government.” Proposition II says: “The area of freedom contracts and the enforcement of restraints increases as the stresses on the stability of the government and of the structure of society increase.”
- John D. Stevens in an essay, “Freedom of Expression: New Dimensions,” adds the following two propositions to Siebert's original two: “The more heterogeneous a society, the more freedom of expression it will tolerate” and “The more developed a society, the more subtle will be the controls it exerts on expression.” See Mass Media and the National Experience, Ronald T. Farrar and John D. Stevens, eds. (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), pp. 14–37. During the present interview Siebert indicated he agreed with Stevens' additions, commenting, “I didn't even think of them.”
- Clyde Augustus Duniway, The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts (New York: Longmans, Green, 1906).