Reading Check #3 (Chapter 5)

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Media Ethics and Regulation Quiz

Test your knowledge of media ethics, regulations, and legal standards with our comprehensive quiz. This quiz covers important topics from Chapter 5, including government restrictions on speech, defamation, and the ethical responsibilities of media organizations.

  • 20 multiple-choice and true/false questions
  • Designed for students and media professionals
  • Challenge yourself and learn more about the media landscape
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Most media organizations have established ______, which serve as written statements of policy and conduct.
Journalism reviews
Editorial standards
Pressure groups
Intrusion committees
The U.S. Supreme Court has often approved government restrictions on speech or the press. Such restrictions are legal as long as those limits:
Are applicable to everyone
Are without political bias
Serve a significant government interest
All of these
The ethical standards for the mass media involve the following levels:
The personal level
The professional level
The societal level
All of these
Rules set by the government about how firms are allowed to compete with each other
Economic regulations
Privacy policies
Advocacy organizations
All of these
______ protects writers, documentary producers, artists, and academics who want to quote from copyrighted material in order to carry out critical analysis
Parody
Transformation
Fair use
Defamation
Governmental media regulation can be divided into the following categories:
Regulation of content before it is distributed
Regulation of content after it has been distributed
Economic regulation
All of these
An act that is highly disreputable, or a false statement about a living person or organization that causes injury to the reputation that a substantial group of people hold for that person or entity.
Defamation
Libel per se
Libel per quod
Malice
Advocacy agencies, also known as ______, are collections of people who work to change the nature of certain kinds of mass media.
Principle groups
Pressure groups
Ethical boards
All of these
The current U.S media landscape is dominated by several ____, a select few companies that control specific markets.
Monopolies
Government agencies
Monarchs
Oligopolies
The FCC's overall mission carries out several responsibilities, including:
Creating technical order
Promoting values and ideals in the media
Creating ratings systems for media
All of the above
Invasion-of-privacy activities which media firms take part in include appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure, and false light.
True
False
Editorial standards are publications that report on and analyze ethical and unethical journalism practices.
True
False
Parody is a work that imitates another work for laughs in a way that comments on the original work.
True
False
The television, motion picture and video game industries prominently feature ratings and advisories for parents and children, each with its own sets of criteria.
True
False
The U.S. Supreme Court allows prior restraint (government restriction of speech before it is made) in the cases of both education and national security.
True
False
Malice is the right to be protected from unwanted intrusions and disclosures.
True
False
Ethics is a system of notions about right and wrong that guides a person's actions.
True
False
Only the FTC pays attention to consumer protection as it relates to mass media, as the FCC is focused on protecting businesses and mass media vehicles.
True
False
Self-regulatiions regimes are sets of codes and agreements among companies in an industry to ensure that employees carry out their work in an ethical manner.
True
False
Defamation is written communication that is considered obvious libel.
True
False
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