COM 114 Lecture 9: 12.8.15

• School: Pace University
• Department: Communications
• Course: COM 114
• Professor: morris

Document Summary

Laws are enacted principles: constitutional guarantees, common law experience, philosophical invocations (where applicable) Media law enacts principles that: shape, constrain, protect. The institution and application of an extremely influential social force. Censorship: what can be published, where and how. This is the government saying something cannot be distributed, but it can be created: primary conflicts: One of the key foundations of america censorship laws is the concept of prior censorship . Alonso 2: libel and slander: the protection of those communicated about, primary conflicts: Ownership: the protection of the legal relation between a person (individual, group, corporation, or government) and an object: primary issues. Topical arrangement of categories: first amendment laws, libel and slander, access to information, protection of sources, obscenity and pornography, intellectual property, telecommunication. Public relations is an all-encompassing latitudinal (a one-moment snapshot) and longitudinal (over time) platform of image, definition, support and application to the end of maximising the operational success of an institution.