JOURN 1100 Midterm: Study Guide-Exam 3
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Remember that this exam focuses a bit more on application than previous exams did. In other words, not only will you need to understand the basics behind the concepts, but you"ll also need to apply them in hypothetical scenarios that i will give you. For those application questions, review the steps that we took in class when we talked about the libel case studies and the ethics case studies. Understand appropriate checklists, legal tests, and processes for ethical decision-making. Here is a list of topics you should pay special attention to: free speech / first amendment discovery of truth. Locke-government should answer to people, not the other way around. Government"s job is to safeguard the people"s rights. Areopagitica - censorship is unnecessary, because truth will always win in a battle of falsity. Blackstone-the liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of the free state: historical foundations.
