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Media and American Democracy
The curriculum,Mediaand AmericanDemocracy, was made
possible by agenerous grant from
the John S. and JamesL. Knight
Foundation.
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Media & American Democracy
5 units/15 lessons with activities
and extensions
challenges learners to apply, analyze
and evaluate the First Amendment.
Equal Time
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
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Media & American Democracy
Lesson Overview
Objectives
Critical Engagement Question
Lesson
Homework Historical
Context Lesson Plan
Handouts
Post-Lesson Options
Homework Options
Extension Activities
Back of the Book Resources
Answer Key (155-164)
Glossary (166-171)
Landmark Cases (172-174)
Media Milestones (175-176)
Journalistic Code of Ethics (177)
Website Eval. Template (179-180)
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Because a free press can be abused,
1. The government can usually impose priorrestraint to prevent publication of false material.
2. Newspapers can be required to get a governmentlicense to operate.
3. The media can be punished after the fact fornegligent or malicious publication of untruths.
4. State laws provide for shutting downnewspapers that are malicious, scandalous anddefamatory.
5. Not sure
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What kind of speech receives thehighest level of protection under the
Constitution?
1. Symbolic speech
2. Religious speech
3. Political speech
4. True speech
5. Not sure
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CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT QUESTIONWhat responsibilities do citizens have to
discern fact from fiction inpolitical debate? (p. 39)
What is the difference between a politicalad and a political news report? (p. 40
Homework)
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Laws protecting consumers againstfalse and misleading advertising are
constitutional.
1. True
2. False
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There are no federal laws against falseadvertising for political candidates.
1. True
2. False
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Political speech is guaranteed thehighest level of protection under the
First Amendment.
1. True
2. False
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A candidate for political office canlegally make false statements about
her opponent during an election.
1. True
2. False
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1. Laws protecting consumers against false andmisleading advertising are constitutional.
2. There are no federal laws against false advertising forpolitical candidates.
3. Political speech is guaranteed the highest level of
protection under the First Amendment. (It receivesgreater protection than commercial speech, forexample.)
4. A TV station manager cannot refuse to air ads from
political candidates if he knows the claims in the adsare false.
5. A candidate for political office can legally make falsestatements about her opponent during an election.
(Statements on p. 43)
Got Facts or Fiction? P. 39: True/False
All fivestatements aretrue.
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p. 165T H E F I R S T A M E N D M E N T
Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment ofreligion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging thefreedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceablyto assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress ofgrievances.
F R E E D O M O F T H E P R E S SCongress shall make no law
abridging the freedom ofthe ress
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Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carringon, 1787, p. 44
I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always
be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, butwill soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of theirgovernors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the trueprinciples of their institution. To punish these errors too severelywould be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty.
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, thevery first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me todecide whether we should have a government without newspapers, ornewspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment toprefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive thosepapers and be capable of reading them.
According to Jefferson, what is the only safeguardof liberty?
Why?
d l A d d f bl
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Federal Communications Act: Candidates for PublicOffice (1934), p. 44
If any licensee [media outlet] shall permit any person who is alegally qualified candidate for any public office to use a
broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to allother such candidates for that office in the use of such
broadcasting station: [The media outlet] shall have no powerof censorship over the material broadcast.
US Code: Title 47, Sec. 315
The Federal Communications Act is afederal (national) law. Would Jeffersonagree or disagree with this regulation?
Why?
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See background/historical context, p.40-41. Note: The Supreme Court has
interpreted the First Amendment toafford the highest degree ofprotection to political speech.
Read Handout Cpp. 45-47.
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See Activity guide, p. 41parts B. & C.
Discuss: Since the media cannot refuse to airads they know to be false, what is theirresponsibility to check the accuracy ofclaims in their reporting?
Handout D, p. 48focus on responsibility
Got Facts or Fiction? P. 39: True/False
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Because a free press can be abused,
1. The government can usually impose priorrestraint to prevent publication of false material.
2. Newspapers can be required to get a governmentlicense to operate.
3. The media can be punished after the fact fornegligent or malicious publication of untruths.
4. State laws provide for shutting downnewspapers that are malicious, scandalous anddefamatory.
5. Not sure
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What kind of speech receives thehighest level of protection under the
Constitution?
1. Symbolic speech
2. Religious speech
3. Political speech
4. True speech
5. Not sure
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