Freedom of the press

Unfortunately, limiting how people are protected the First Amendment will create a continued decrees in peoples freedom. This means that, overtime restrictions could create an opposite affect and instead of protecting people, it could hold everyone prisoner. For this reason, it is very important that people educate themselves on their rites, so that people can better understand what their freedom actually…

Should music lyrics be really censored? This is just one of the questions that make us wonder and think. Music censorship is the official prohibition or restriction of any type of music believed to threaten the political, social or moral order. There are two sides for this issue; there are people who agree for music censorship while there are also people who are against the censorship of the music. Imagine our world without music or imagine our world where we are dictated what to play and what…

key to helping us give our young minds the history and education they need to succeed in the world. According to People for the American Way “Between 1990 and 2000, there were 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom. Seventy-one percent of the challenges were to materials in schools or school libraries. Another twenty-four percent were to material in public libraries. Sixty percent of the challenges were brought by parents, fifteen percent by patrons, and…

Distribution of Inappropriate Content At what point does published media cross the line of what is appropriate, to what is considered inappropriate? Why is some nudity socially accepted on some television shows, while it is frowned upon in others? Is blood and gore okay for children to view so long as it is a zombie, but not okay if it is coming from a gladiator? Everyone, from birth to death, is exposed to unwanted media. Be it foul language, nudity, adult content, or something else, unwanted…

Nonetheless, given journalism is itself a product of culture, it is not solely responsible for these cultural misrepresentations. Instead, systemic financial, corporate, and governmental factors influence journalistic frameworks, thereby making issues circular, and inherently difficult to overcome. This is especially evident in environmental media coverage. Bacon and Nash (2012, p.250) determine media often, “…take a structural position that is tightly aligned with the interests of the coal…

Books, films, news and more! So many ways to get the word out there. But if it is politically unacceptable, considered indecent, or even a threat to society it needs to be prohibited. The novel Go Ask Alice by anonymous is an intense book about a fifteen-year-old girl who gets mixed up in the wrong crowd and wants so badly to fit in she does not care that her "friends" take hardcore drugs. She even started taking them herself. This novel without a doubt needs to be banned. It is not only…

1. In Orange County, there are not many full-fledged newsstands unlike the ones in other states such as New York, but the ones that are present are usually very small coin operated dispensers with no pornography in sight. I do remember one particular instance about ten years ago, when I went to a minimart and was looking at the magazines, and remember seeing some racy covers, which led to the salesperson pointing out a sign to my eight-year-old self that read something along the lines of “must…

certain emotions whether they are good or not. As stated in Freedom of Expression in the Arts and entertainment “ Today’s calls for censorship are not motivated solely by morality and taste, but also by the widespread belief that exposure to images of violence causes people to act in destructive”…

the civil liberty is the freedom of the press because freedom of the press allows citizens to stay informed, gives the people a voice to address wrongs, and gives citizens the ability to make better decisions and form opinions based on the information presented. Having a voice and being allowed to address wrongs is a powerful privilege. Being able to talk about the wrongs the government has committed informs the public, therefore affecting elections and protests. Free press and the media can be…

of 1798 created a great debate over the meaning of freedom of speech and the press because it limited what people could say. The two opposing views were crafted by Henry Lee and James Madison. Lee believed that freedom of speech and the press meant exactly what it did when Blackstone wrote it for England, which is that it is a freedom from prior restraint and nothing more. However, Madison stated that the American concept of freedom of the press and speech went beyond what is stated in the…