1. Politics and the Media (POLS 328) Professor Jonathan Day

2. Outline 1. Attendance Sheet 2. Restrictions on the Media 3. Freedoms of the Media

3. Restrictions Right to Equal Time Right of Rebuttal Executive Privilege Private Industries Some White House and State Department meetings Some pre-trial hearings and grand jury proceedings Supreme Court conferences Some legislative sessions Sites of crimes and disasters when public is not permitted Interviewing and filming prison inmates Combat Zones

4. More Restrictions Privacy Protection (example: medical records) Libel Laws Obscenity Self-Regulation

5. Freedoms Presidential inauguration Space shuttle landings Political Conventions Scene of events: Accidents and Crimes Newspapers can publish or not publish anything they want Reporters are free to publish pictures that are taken in public settings and they don’t have to ask for permission. Freedom of Information Act

6. Effective starting in 1966 – makes available records of the federal government with several exceptions: National Security Papers Law Enforcement Files Agency working papers Highly personal information

7. The Three Party Conflict Government vs. Media vs. People

8. Next Class Media and Democracy

9. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-5- 2004/colbert---jury-on-trial http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-5- 2004/colbert---jury-on-trial