For Monday, read Dunaway, ch. 3
Story on oppo. Remember: when you see negative information about candidates, it probably originated with opposition researchers.
The Chomsky View:
Terms (Dunaway 42-48)
- Independents
- Chains
- Cross-Media
- Conglomerates
Patterns of control
IMPORTANT: WHEN YOU ANALYZE A NEWS STORY, YOU MUST DETERMINE WHETHER IT ORIGINATED WITH A WIRE SERVICE.
Broadcast TV and Radio
- Networks and stations
- Duopolies or "twinsticks"
- Affiliates and "owned and operated" stations
- The case of Sinclair
- Murrow: "combination of show business, advertising and news."
Cable
- Cable networks v. cable carriers
Internet
- Social media platforms
- Digital natives
- Affiliates of traditional media.
- Licensing and FCC Ownership Rules
- Equal Time
- Fairness Doctrine (defunct)
Talk Radio (from an Annenberg Public Policy Center report):
- In 1980s, satellite dishes enabled high-quality instant distribution
- 1-800 number that made the interactive national program possible.
- "The end of the fairness doctrine paved the way for talk radio as we know it today. Neither hosts nor stations currently have an obligation to provide balance or voice to competing views."
Freedom of Speech
- The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
- Opinion on government control
- The Doctrine of Prior Restraint and gag orders
- Copyright
- Defamation
- Who really uses FOIA? (Hint: it ain't Woodward and Bernstein).
- The United States is unusual in its protection of free speech.
- Comparative analysis of press freedom
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