Social Psychology



Media Regulation: Crash Course U.S. Government #45

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1. The _________________________________________

was written into the Bill of Rights because the framers

wisely recognized that without a free press, Americans

would be less able to have the information they needed

to make good political decisions.

a. What is needed in order to win a libel lawsuit?

2. _______________________ is the most tightly regulated among the information sources.

a. What are some ways in which the government regulates this?

3. Sometimes these FCC rulings and fines become ____________________________ cases as people raise concerns about whether they deny ________________________.

4. Congress also tried to regulate broadcasters by passing ___________________, as it tried to do with the 1996 Telecommunications Act. This act was best known for its failed attempts to __________________________________________, but it had other more interesting effects.

5. Unlike print and broadcast media, the internet is largely __________________________.

6. A more effective way to regulate the internet has been through ___________________, especially those around _______________________________________.

7. Critics point out that super-mergers can lead to a lack of __________________________, which can lead to fewer _______________________________ represented in our news coverage and our stories.

8. What is the net neutrality debate about?

9. The media is different from other corporate entities

because it serves a _____________________________,

something that the framers realized when they wrote

freedom of the press into the _____________________

_______________________.

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