Reading Check #3 (Chapter 5)

Most media organizations have established ______, which serve as written statements of policy and conduct.

The U.S. Supreme Court has often approved government restrictions on speech or the press. Such restrictions are legal as long as those limits:

The ethical standards for the mass media involve the following levels:

Rules set by the government about how firms are allowed to compete with each other

______ protects writers, documentary producers, artists, and academics who want to quote from copyrighted material in order to carry out critical analysis

Governmental media regulation can be divided into the following categories:

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.

Advocacy agencies, also known as ______, are collections of people who work to change the nature of certain kinds of mass media.

The current U.S media landscape is dominated by several ____, a select few companies that control specific markets.

The FCC's overall mission carries out several responsibilities, including:

Invasion-of-privacy activities which media firms take part in include appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure, and false light.

Editorial standards are publications that report on and analyze ethical and unethical journalism practices.

Parody is a work that imitates another work for laughs in a way that comments on the original work.

The television, motion picture and video game industries prominently feature ratings and advisories for parents and children, each with its own sets of criteria.

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.

Malice is the right to be protected from unwanted intrusions and disclosures.

Ethics is a system of notions about right and wrong that guides a person's actions.

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.

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.

Defamation is written communication that is considered obvious libel.