Media and the Law

Lecture

Dominick, Chapter 15

First Principles of the First Amendment (link on the course syllabus page)

Media ethics

Lecture

Dominick, Chapter 16

Paper presentations by your colleagues

Talk by Sunni Blevins, Nov. 21, 2005

JFK assassination videotape

In addition:

Responsibilities of college students: prepare, attend, engage

Media is a plural noun.

News – functions

                  news values

Culture of journalism

Development of books

                  how does a book get published

Magazines – characteristics

                  kinds of journalism magazines have fostered

                  three elements necessary for a magazine to survive

Importance of newspapers

                  newspaper organization

                  trends in newspapers

World Wide Web – characteristics that make it different

                  threads of thinking that led to the development of the web

                  redefinition of news

                  regulation of the web

Development of radio

                  government role in broadcasting

Development of television

                  Edward R. Murrow

                  how cable television developed

                  issues in the regulation of television

Advertising – common criticisms

                  advertising's role in the economics of the media

                  organization of the advertising industry