COM 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pentagon Papers, Child Pornography, Prior Restraint
28 Sep 2016
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Libertarian: no restriction on media: great trust in the citizen"s ability to tell truth from fiction, letting marketplace decide. Social responsibility: media are powerful, but they need to stay responsible to citizens because there are no checks/ balances on the media: privately owned; responsibility goes to stockholders, consumers, but ultimately to the citizens. Authoritarian: audience/ public needs guidance from the elite: government can be criticized but not frequently, authorities issue licenses/ the right to publish or speak as a newsperson, line is fuzzy between this, communist and totalitarian. Developmental: government tries to improve society quickly, using mass media, raise literacy/ strengthen and develop nation by using the media. Communist/ totalitarian: press serves the state, challenges to the authority are not tolerated. It is not because several groups control media content: large corporations/ owners, advertising, public. Us courts have set aside the first amendment because of competing right/ social good has taken precedence.
