POL S 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Watergate Scandal, Indian Civil Rights Act Of 1968, Federal Communications Commission

• School: SDSU
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S 102
• Professor: J.M E R C U R I O

Document Summary

Indian citizenship act of 1924: gave indians option of citizenship. Indian civil rights act of 1964: extends their protections, just not american. Same-sex marriage: loving v virginia (1967): banned laws that stated interracial marriage because it was immoral, obergefell v hodges (2015): overturned bans on same-sex marriage. Private ownership: 90% of the media is privately owned: the only public one is cbs, partially founded, cspan just shows footage. In other countries, about 40% is owned by government: media in america is solely for profit, they get revenue. Objectivity and non-partisanship: this is a journalistic ethic: just going to report the facts and let viewers do whatever they want, no ideologies and no partisanship, no biased reporting, e. g. Watchdog role: media looks for illegal, immoral, and unethical behavior: media and viewers like scandal, this also comes from combination from watergate scandal and vietnam.