Reading Check #3 (Chapter 5)

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Media Ethics and Regulation Quiz

Test your knowledge of media ethics, regulations, and legal standards with our comprehensive quiz. This quiz covers important topics from Chapter 5, including government restrictions on speech, defamation, and the ethical responsibilities of media organizations.

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Most media organizations have established ______, which serve as written statements of policy and conduct.

Journalism reviews

Editorial standards

Pressure groups

Intrusion committees

The U.S. Supreme Court has often approved government restrictions on speech or the press. Such restrictions are legal as long as those limits:

Are applicable to everyone

Are without political bias

Serve a significant government interest

All of these

The ethical standards for the mass media involve the following levels:

The personal level

The professional level

The societal level

All of these

Rules set by the government about how firms are allowed to compete with each other

Economic regulations

Privacy policies

Advocacy organizations

All of these

______ protects writers, documentary producers, artists, and academics who want to quote from copyrighted material in order to carry out critical analysis

Parody

Transformation

Fair use

Defamation

Governmental media regulation can be divided into the following categories:

Regulation of content before it is distributed

Regulation of content after it has been distributed

Economic regulation

All of these

An act that is highly disreputable, or a false statement about a living person or organization that causes injury to the reputation that a substantial group of people hold for that person or entity.

Defamation

Libel per se

Libel per quod

Malice

Advocacy agencies, also known as ______, are collections of people who work to change the nature of certain kinds of mass media.

Principle groups

Pressure groups

Ethical boards

All of these

The current U.S media landscape is dominated by several ____, a select few companies that control specific markets.

Monopolies

Government agencies

Monarchs

Oligopolies

The FCC's overall mission carries out several responsibilities, including:

Creating technical order

Promoting values and ideals in the media

Creating ratings systems for media

All of the above

Invasion-of-privacy activities which media firms take part in include appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure, and false light.

True

False

Editorial standards are publications that report on and analyze ethical and unethical journalism practices.

True

False

Parody is a work that imitates another work for laughs in a way that comments on the original work.

True

False

The television, motion picture and video game industries prominently feature ratings and advisories for parents and children, each with its own sets of criteria.

True

False

The U.S. Supreme Court allows prior restraint (government restriction of speech before it is made) in the cases of both education and national security.

True

False

Only the FTC pays attention to consumer protection as it relates to mass media, as the FCC is focused on protecting businesses and mass media vehicles.

True

False

Self-regulatiions regimes are sets of codes and agreements among companies in an industry to ensure that employees carry out their work in an ethical manner.

True

False

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