PLSC 2003 Study Guide - Final Guide: Accountability, Russ Feingold, Nonprobability Sampling

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PLSC 2003
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Print media is essentially free of government interference. Communications commission (fcc), which regulates american radio and television, is an independent agency established in 1934. Following the passage of the act, several mergers between telephone and cable companies and among different segments of the entertainment media produced an even greater concentration of media ownership. It also included an attempt to regulate the content of material transmitted over the internet. Communications decency act, made it illegal to make indecent sexual material on the. Internet accessible to those less than eighteen years of age. The act was immediately denounced by civil libertarians and brought to court as an infringement of free speech. News corporation, time warner and viacom ranking second, third and fourth respectively: what are the consequences with media giants controlling too much of the media? a. Increasing concentration of media ownership raises a number of major issues. One of the most important relates to political equality.