查爾斯·埃德溫·貝克(C. Edwin Baker,1947- )是美國賓州大學(xué)Nicholas F. Gallicchio講座教授,專精憲法、傳播法、大眾傳媒法。除本書外,另著有Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech(Oxford 1989),Advertising and a Democratic Press(Princeton 1994),Media Concentration and Democracy:Why Ownership Matters(Cambridge 2007)等書。