TVR 12100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Prior Restraint, Commercial Speech, Free Market
10 Dec 2016
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Content is king but, there are consequences for content that is inaccurate or untruthful (defamation) We live in a society of rules and regulations. Mass media and regulation are about control: control of content, control of distribution, control of exhibition. Internal regulation: gatekeepers, ex: motion pictures ratings system. Regulators in mass media exist outside the media channels: laws and guidelines that impact the way media produce, distribute, and exhibit content, federal, state, and city/county level, laws, codes, mandates. 4 models of regulation: broad control concepts. Describe the way society and media interact: authoritarian. All media must support the government: usually a specific person or dictator. Strict government control: control of thought and action (using media to do so) Government insists media supports its goals and interests. Right of the individual to consume media without any restrictions. It is assumed that truth/good will win out. Not particularly strong or able: social responsibility. Free market place of ideas: ex: us; western europe.
