COMM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Actual Malice, Commercial Speech, False Light
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The country"s founders were determined that, in the new nation, no one would need the government"s permission to communicate ideas to a wide public. Since the time that the first amendment was passed, lawmakers and lawyers have understood that the phrase make no law means that the federal branch of government cannot make laws abridging, the cut short, press freedoms. This concept has changed over the years because of changing technology and the large number of new media channels. Today a broad view of the press includes factually truthful advertising and many forms of entertainment in film, television, and radio as well as traditional forms of print media. The supreme court has often approved government restrictions on speech or the press that place limits on the time, place, and manner of an expression. Such restrictions are legal as long as those limits: Leave ample alternative ways for the communication to take place.
