Journal # 14 by Gavin Lockheart https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks Laws and regulations en-us 2022-01-19 17:25:11 UTC 2022-05-15 20:15:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Journalism broken down gavinlockheart https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2066981103 Journalism is a type of correspondence, yet it's unmistakable from different structures. It is remarkable on the grounds that it's a one-way message, or story, from the columnist to the crowd. It's most one of a kind on the grounds that the message isn't the writer's very own story or emotional considerations. All things considered, the writer goes about as a channel, portraying an objective tale about something that occurred or is going on, in light of their perceptions and disclosures. This sort of narrating comes in a wide range of structures, including:
  • Breaking news
  • Feature stories
  • Investigative reports
  • Editorials
  • Reviews
  • Blogs

Often Journalism can be recognized through how the information is gathered and presented. Who was it?
What did they do?
Where were they?
When did it happen?
Why did it happen?
]]> 2022-02-25 20:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2066981103 Journalism and ethical confrontations gavinlockheart https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2066988177 Journalism is confronting new moral issues in light of the development of the Internet
also, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
analyze how editorial sets of principles have been refreshed to address this new
reality. Three exploration questions are investigated through a precise examination of 99
codes from around the world. That's what results show, of the 99 codes dissected, just 9
incorporate references to the Internet and ICTs. Journalists Jesús Díaz-Campo
Francisco Segado-Boj have a proposition for
changes in the codes that would assist writers with settling these new upright issues.

They outline their work's highlights as the following:
"We examine how journalistic codes of ethics have been updated since the
emergence of the Internet and ICTs.
o We have analyzed 99 journalistic codes of ethics from around the world.
o Only 9 of the 99 codes analyzed include references to the Internet and ICTs.
o All of the codes that do include references to the Internet were updated in
the twenty-first century.
o The codes with the most references to the Internet and ICTs are those of
Canada, the United Kingdom, and Norway. "
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01329982/document

There are many others looking into and questioning the ethics being used online and it will continue to evolve to best be able to provide the truth and remain moral.]]> 2022-02-25 20:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2066988177 Obscenity gavinlockheart https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2067010558 Obscenity, one definition comes from the Latin "Obscanum"  'canum' meaning 'filth.' 'Obs' means in front of. There is another Greek definition, "Obskena," meaning 'off stage.' In the greek times it was violence, death, and sexual expression that was kept 'off stage.'  In 1973 there was a 5/4 split amongst the Supreme Court, with majority led by Chief Justice Warren Burger that argued that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, under the Free Speech clause. Prior to this time, censorship was decided over obscenity through something called the hicklin test, established by the English case Regina v. Hicklin in 1868, and used in the US beginning with the Comstock Laws and then solidified in Rosen vs US in 1896 until the 1950s. The case set a precedent for defining obscene matter as "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." 
In 1957 the Hicklin test law was overturned in the Roth vs US, with a 6-3 decision written by William Brennan, who wanted a stricter interpretation of obscenity. This case left two rules, you can ban it if it has "utterly no redeeming social importance," and then community standards "That to the average person applying contemporary standards the dominant theme of the material taken as whole appeals to prurient interests. Prurient being defined as "having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters." This ultimately led to the 1973 decision applying the Miller test. The criteria for the miller test was "(1) whether ‘the average person, applying contemporary community standards’ would find that the work, ‘taken as a whole,’ appeals to ‘prurient interest’ (2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law, and (3) whether the work, ‘taken as a whole,’ lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." It requires that all 3 be able to be applied to the material in question in order to be considered obscene and without protection of the First Amendment Free Speech clause. This allowed for places like New York to determine themselves as a community if they wanted to produce material that was "obscene" but still was considered socially valuable to them as a community.


 
]]> 2022-02-25 21:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2067010558 Children's Programming Protections gavinlockheart https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2174073743 They incorporated a prerequisite for TV channels to record their telecom of projects which "[further] the positive improvement of kids 16 years old and under in any regard, including the youngster's learned person/mental or social/profound necessities", and a necessity for the FCC to involve this as an element in permit recharges. Stricter guidelines were executed in 1997, requiring all stations to communicate something like three hours of programming for each week that is intended to instruct and illuminate watchers matured 16 and more youthful, and presenting necessities with respect to live distinguishing proof of these projects, and more rigid revealing prerequisites.]]> 2022-05-07 21:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2174073743 Intellectual Property Rights gavinlockheart https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2174074621 Lawful privileges that give makers security to unique works, innovations, or the presence of items, creative works, logical turns of events, etc Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. The immaterial idea of protected innovation presents challenges when contrasted and conventional property like land or products. Not at all like conventional property, licensed innovation is "unified", since a limitless number of individuals can "consume" a scholarly decent without its being drained. Also, interests in scholarly products experience the ill effects of issues of appointment: Landowners can encompass their territory with a strong wall and recruit outfitted gatekeepers to safeguard it, yet makers of data or writing can ordinarily do barely anything to prevent their most memorable purchaser from duplicating it and selling it at a lower cost. Adjusting privileges so they are sufficiently able to empower the making of scholarly merchandise yet not so solid that they forestall the products' wide use is the essential focal point of current licensed innovation regulation.]]> 2022-05-07 21:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2174074621 Regulating Commercial and Political Speech gavinlockheart https://padlet.com/gavinlockheart/Bookmarks/wish/2174075824 Commercial speech is discourse or composing in the interest of a business with the aim of acquiring income or a benefit. It is financial in nature and for the most part endeavors to convince customers to buy the business' item or administration.

Supreme court developed a four-part test to determine whether commercial speech regulation violates the First Amendment:[3]

  1. Whether the commercial speech concerns a lawful activity and is not misleading
  2. Whether the government interest asserted to justify the regulation is "substantial"
  3. Whether the regulation "directly advances" that government interest
  4. Whether the regulation is no more extensive than necessary to serve that interest
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