COMM1301 Exam 3
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- The press as a player in medieval power structures in addition to the three other estates.
- fourth estate
- Watching to government "For the people"
- Watchdog
- reporting negative information on a parent company.
- duty to employer
- cause of death in an obiturary or identifies of rape victim
- duty to audience
- self preservation might lead a journalist to report a story from a safe distance
- duty to self
- ad agency blowing the whistle on other ad people
- duty to proffession
- copyright laws since 1970. protects for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years.
- US copyright laws
- open meeting laws require government meetings to be open to the public
- sunshine laws
- time place and manner limits by the government on expression
- TPM
- sued national enquirer and won for slander
- Carol Burnett
- Libel Vs. Slander
- written vs. spoken
- 1st amendment
- James Madison
- not saying no but putting a wall up. making it very hard for the reporter
- stonewalling
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low level employee floating an idea up to a head employee
"Floated Idea" - Trial Balloon
- Shaping how the audience sees reality "Frame it"
- Framing
- Moral Rules ->Good Actions
- Deontological
- Worried not with what they do but worry bout the outcome. Based on results!
- Teleological
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A.)Definition-Hard to define indecency
B.)Access-How do you enforce?
Ex: Porn with children.. - Communication Decency Act 1996
- The court said someone might be justified taking action against someone for using fighting words.
- Fighting words doctrine
- People decieve themselves into believing they are involved when they are actually only informed
- Narcoticizing Dysfunction
- Theory that media influence is gradual over time
- Cumulative effects theory
- Media tell people what to think about, not what to think
- Agenda setting model
- Media affects individuals through opinion leaders
- Two-step flow model
- "Public Opinion" Powerful effects theory:repeated exposure in media
- Walter Lippmann
- Help with ethical dilemmas. No one way to do it.
- Potters box
- Put information activation of 1 thought that leads to other thoughts. "Plant the Seed"
- Priming
- Watch media that is of your interests/values/morals
- selective exposure
- egalitiarian ethics "veil of ignorance"
- Rawls
- Pragmatic ethics
- Dewey
- Ulitarian ethics
- Mills
- Categorical imperatives
- Immanual Kant
- The Golden mean
- Aristotle
- look at human experience than probable consequences and desirability of those consequences
- pragmatic theory
- the needs of many over the few
- ulitarian theory
- the theory that holds that people overestimate the impact of media messages on other people
- 3rd person effect
- not living life bc you are watching it on tv
- media induced passivity
- virtue of moral decisions had to be judged based on results
- pragmatic ethics(dewey)
- veil of ignorance
- egalitarian ethics(rawls)
- morally right decisions result in "Happiness for the greatest number"
- Ulitarian Ethics (Mill)