MC 2000 : Mass Media Test 2j-from Mass Media Law Part 2
Document Summary
There are three main types of us governmental controls of media content: regulation of content before distribution, regulation of content after distribution, economic regulations. Regulating content before distribution-prior restraint: when the government restricts speech before it is made. Supreme court has allowed regulation of content in some cases: obscenity, national security, military operations, copyright, courtroom proceedings, education, commercial speech. It is narrowly defined, particularly in reference to the concept of a clear and present danger . The pentagon papers case 1971 (gov papers against v. nam war s. court allows them to print after president stopped them) The progressive 1979 (how to build a hydrogen bomb) A highly disreputable or false statement about a living person or an organization that causes injury to the reputation that a substantial group of people hold for that person or entity. Libel vs. slander: libel-is written communication that is considered harmful to a person"s reputation, slander-is spoken communication that is considered harmful to a person"s reputation.
