First Amendment Models for Print, Broadcast, Cable & Internet
Know the correct legal definitions and rules. Know the signficance of the cases. Be able to correctly recognize and apply them in hypothetical situations.
What are the different levels of First Amendment protection afforded to print, broadcast, cable and the Internet, including the significant court decisions, rationales and tests used in determining those levels.?
- Lovell v. Griffin (1938)
- Miami Herald v. Tornillo (1974)
- Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC (1969)
- How did the U.S. Supreme Court reach seemingly conflicting decisions in the Red Lion and Miami Herald cases? In other words, how did the U.S. Supreme Court justify allowing the government to regulate broadcasting in ways that it said would violate the First Amendment rights of publishers?
- 3 rationales for broadcast regulation.
- Cable:
- Los Angeles v. Preferred Communications Inc. (1986)
- Turner Broadcasting System Inc. v. FCC (1994): significance and the two ways in which the First Amendment applies to cable television.
- Is the Internet publishing? Is the Internet broadcasting? Explain using the following cases:
- ACLU v. Reno (E.D.PA.1996)
- Reno v. ACLU (1997)
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