Media (12 questions) Flashcards
FCC (2 questions)
-Independent Regulatory Agency
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Fairness doctrine
-Broadcasters who aired programs on controversial issues were required to provide time for opposing views. (this stopped being enforced in 1985)
Agenda setting
-The power of the media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems.
Watchdog role
It is authoritative because it gets its information from primary, not secondary, sources, and it seeks answers to the questions that information raises.
It is revelatory – it breaks new ground and tells readers information they didn’t know.
It gives the reader enough information to be able to draw a reasonable conclusion.
It has an impact on the community by prompting change.
It advances the community’s quality of life.
It rights wrongs.
It holds public officials accountable.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996
An act of the United States Congress that effectively superseded the 1982 Modified Final Judgement (MFJ), removing line-of-business restrictions and promising to permit full and open competition in virtually every aspect of communications, from radio broadcasting to CATV to local exchange service and long distance service.
Equal time provision
-Broadcasters must provide candidates for the same political office equal opportunities to communicate their massages to the public.
Framing
-Media’s ability to influence how the American people interpret political events and results.
Media ownership
-More Media Outlets owned by fewer companies
Media bias
-All media is biased
Prior restraint
- Efforts by a governmental agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; otherwise known as censorship
- in most cases (especially in the Supreme Court case about the Pentagon papers) the Supreme Court does not allow the government to have prior restraint. i.e. they cannot censor the media before the info is presented to the public.
First televised debate
1960: Kennedy vs. Nixon
