MASS Communications CHAP 14

According to the FCC, language or material that depicts sexual or excretory activities in a way that is offensive to contemporary community standards is:

Indecent

The false and malicious publication of material that damages a person's reputation (typically applied to print media) is:

Libel

Royalty payments in the music industry are collected from users and paid to musicians by ________________ like ASCAP and BMI.

Licensing companies

A culture's fundamental values are its:

Metaethics

The legal definition of obscenity was established by which important Supreme Court decision?

Miller v. State of California

In applying ethics, the person making the decisions is called the:

Moral agent

The Supreme Court decision declaring that the FCC's traffic cop role did indeed allow it to regulate the content of that traffic is the ______________ Decision.

NBC

A theory that explains how media should ideally operate in a given system of social values is ____________ theory.

Normative

Once the copyright on a piece of expression expires and is not renewed, the material passes into _____________, meaning it can be used without permission.

Public domain

In 1957, in _____________, the Supreme Court determined that sex and obscenity were not synonymous, a significant advance for freedom of expression. It did, however, legally affirm for the first time that obscenity was unprotected expression.

Roth v. United States

The _______________ principle is represented by the paired ideas that the free flow or trade of ideas ensures that public discourse will allow the truth to emerge and that truth will emerge from this public discourse because people are inherently rational and good.

Self-righting

The guarantee to a fair trial is secured in the _____________ Amendment to the Constitution.

Sixth

Oral or spoken defamation of a person's character (typically applied to broadcasting) is:

Slander

Among the regulatory requirements that disappeared during the broadcast deregulation movement of the Reagan administration is _____________, which required broadcasters to cover issues of public importance and to be fair in that coverage.

The Fairness Doctrine

Which important Supreme Court decision established the principle that "it is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount," effectively granting the upper hand to the audience when its interests conflict with those of broadcasters?

The Red Lion Decision