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Test Bank For Media & Culture An Introduction to Mass Communication 14 th

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Chapter 15 Legal Controls and Freedom of Expression

• Most of the world's population now lives in countries where the press is free.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• The United States follows a libertarian model of free expression and free press.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• The Sedition Act strengthened First Amendment protections for citizens.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Only after the Sedition Act expired in 1801 did Americans broadly support the idea of a free press.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• The Supreme Court has claimed that censorship is prior restraint.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• If a soon-to-be-released article seems to violate libel or obscenity laws, most U.S. courts would act to stop

publication.

• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• The Supreme Court has not established limits of the First Amendment.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Appropriating a writer's or an artist's words or music without consent or payment is a form of expression that

is not protected as speech.

• True
• False

ANSWER: a

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Chapter 15 Legal Controls and Freedom of Expression

• Students who quote and cite a copyrighted source in a term paper for class are technically violating the law.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Libel is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Public speech that causes someone damage or actual injury is libelous, even if the speech in question is true.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Defamation that is broadcast is considered slander because it is spoken rather than written.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Parodies and insults of public figures are protected from libel suits unless the statements cause undue

emotional pain.

• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• The Miller v. California case established a national standard for obscenity across the United States.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Ordinary citizens have more privacy protection under U.S. law than do politicians or other public figures.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• There is no federal shield law for journalists in the United States.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• In 1912, federal law outlawed the transportation of boxing movies across state lines.

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Chapter 15 Legal Controls and Freedom of Expression

• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• Motion pictures have been defined as free speech by the U.S. Supreme Court since 1915.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• For the first half of the twentieth century, the actions of local and state film review boards were considered

constitutional.

• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• Movies released in the United States are required by federal law to be labeled with an MPAA movie rating.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• When the movie rating system began in the late 1960s, the G, PG, PG–13, R, X, and NC–17 ratings were

developed and immediately put into place.

• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Since its debut in 1990, the NC–17 movie rating has been a commercially successful rating for films with

adult content.

• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• The First Amendment protects people from discrimination by private employers based on political

affiliation.

• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Currently, both print journalists and broadcasters need federal licenses to operate their businesses.
• True
• False

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