Lecture Dynamics of mass communication (9th edition): Chapter 15 - Joseph R. Dominick

Chapter 15 - Formal controls: Laws, rules, regulations. The following will be discussed in this chapter: The press, the law, and the courts; protecting news sources; covering the courts; reporters’ access to information; defamation; invasion of privacy; copyright; obscenity and pornography; regulating broadcasting; regulating cable TV; the telecommunications act of 1996; regulating advertising.