Final Exam, Study Flashcards

  stop something before its published

  are designed to protect Judith Miller- reporter was jailed because she wasn't going to give up her sources; CIA leak probe

makes sure planes don't crash into their towers

Use the Lord's name in vane

Using language that depicts sexual or excretory activities or organs; is not illegal- they have a safe harbor (10pm-6am rule)

depiction of sexual acts in an offensive manner; the most serious of all three; no first amendment protection; example Miller Vs. California Case

reporters can not trespass on someones property to get pictures of things such as an affair, or hidden cameras or microphones

public record is also considered invasion of privacy such as names of a victim of rape; gossip- case at Duke University, a girl made a list of guys she slept with at Duke as a thesis-weekends of conquest

an area of the law that deals with intangible property; 40 years protection after death; Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were saved through copyright reasons – 75 year old birthday

is issued once copyrights runs out such as very old material or government publications

allowing part of a copyrighted work to be used without copyright clearance or payment

• cameras are permitted according to the states level

a group could own stations that covered up to 39% of the U.S.

if a broadcasting station permits one legally qualified candidate for any elective public office for all other legally qualified candidates for the same office (section 315)

states that a disc jockey cannot accept money from a record company in exchange for playing that company's music on the airwaves without reporting it

• don't rely on others to investigate

• don't believe rumors

• don't rely on others to investigate

• don't believe rumors

• ex. casualties of war, natural disaster ( bodies floating, body bags, dead animals), minors

• want to minimize from harm but don't want to take away from the story

• war/conflict- ex. Four contract workers burned skinned and hung at falooza

• beheadings -only on internet

• would it be ethtical clean up bodies-no

• ex. beyonce- make her whiter-not ethical

• not ethical to make models thinner

• they made Katie Couric thinner- she made them change it

• ex. emanofesto- NBC aired it, shot a couple people and showed it ( the rest of networks did not aire it though)  

people didn't leave their house for weeks

has a code of Broadcast News Ethics; it has been written seven times to keep it up to date. There is no legal force to abide by this code but it's a journalistic provision

invaded Ethopia and set up a shortwave station to broadcast anti-British propaganda in Arabic to the Arab war

in 1933, he took over radio, established a Ministry for Public Information and Propaganda and put all radio stations under its power; people who had been in top radio administrators were sent to concentration camps, and most employees lost their jobs

established a decentralized form of radio. They set up an ARD, an umbrella organization for stations in nine regions, but did not broadcast nationally

did their own thing with authoritarian power and the Soviet Union joined them

before the war, had a government-regulated, nonprofit, private broadcasting system

a national public-service network that provided much of the programming for the stations

located on ships anchored off the coast of England began broadcasting rock music, which BBC radio disdained

all programming came from 15 different independent companies

these countries were happy and needed other countries to help them financially to help them build

launched in 1962

most ambitious experiments in television history;

• SITE aired I love Lucy

started in Hong Kong- it broadcasted unscrambled signals of music videos, movies, soap operas, sports, and other fare to countries from Egypt to Japan

most popular, became big in India

• Originally- private-owned station were illegal

  Pirate TV not far behind, since Private owned stations supported advertising TV stations were created because of Francis Mitterand ; Privatization opened the doors for programming and programmers

• the student Czechoslovakian against Communism- led to the downfall of communism because of the TV

their radio stations were operated in caves

• American movies and TV

• Rock Music, Ricky Martin

• NTV- private Russian company

• original programming

• • Al-Jazeera -1936; television- air middle eastern news; the CNN of the Arab world

  • More countries producing movies; big one india, and also New Zeland (lord of the rings)

  • Joint ventures

  • Game shows and soap operas lend themselves to franchising

  
  

• Canada

• south Africa

• Asia

• Australia and New Zealand

• Europe

• Latin America

• In 1992- the BBC launched it's radio station
  

  • the Queen's Coronation- 1953- one social event that got people going; viewed worldwide

  • 1967- color TV to BBC 2

• November 9, 1989- Berlin wall fell

  • Media provided that glimpse into the outside world

  • CNN world wide launched

  • satellites up and running

  • aftermath...the economy struggled, people didn't know how to function from communism to capitalism

• Tiananmen Square- 1989

April 29- Prince William and his betrothed wife wedding