RTV 4700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Miller Test, Fairness Doctrine, Dominick Fernow

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Telecommunication
• Course: RTV 4700
• Professor: Mc Nealy Jasmine

Document Summary

2 parts: stations must air controversial issues stations must allow opposing viewpoints to be heard. Obscenity- a narrow class of material defined by the supreme court in the. Miller test: material that is legally obscene is not protected by the first amendment. Indecent material sexually graphic; often referred to as adult or sexually explicit material that is protected under the first amendment. Such material may be barred in works available to children and in over-the-air radio and television broadcast. Pornography this term has no legal significance but it is often used by laypersons and politicians to describe anything from real obscenity to material that is simply offensive to a viewer. Some feel obscene speech deserves 1st amendment protection. Inefficient to use gov"t resources to prosecute obscenity. An average person, applying contemporary local community standards, finds that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest.