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Go Mizzou . . . Beat Colorado!(please . . . )

• Wednesday
• Celebrating Free Speech
• WHY Free Speech needed?
• Friday Lab
• PEER REVIEWS DUE
• Bring TWO copies of reviews (ONE for peer / ONE
  for TA)
• Essay 1 Draft returned
• NEXT MONDAY
• Guest Lecture!!!

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Communication Controversy O the Day Report

• Team El Rancho
• Katie Grey
• Lucy Herman
• Andrew Stuart
• Cherelle Washington

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Moving On . . . Whos Up Next?

• Team Ramrod
• Casey Adams
• Rachel Bryan
• Dennis Jenkerson
• Monica Nieves
• Angela Wear

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Generic Ballot

• A. YES / Agree
• restrict or limit
• B. NO / Disagree
• do not restrict or limit

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• TODAYS FREE SPEECH FACT
• What media figure is the King of Fines by the
  FCC for indecent broadcasting?
• HINT Think radio . . .

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Howard Stern ShowFCC has proposed fines pending
for Infinity Clear Channel Broadcasting
totaling 2.4 million
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!The Supremes are
in Session
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What to do with Chers Profanity?

• YES, the Court should continue to restrict dirty
  words uttered in prime time
• 65
• NO, the Court should lift restrictions of dirty
  words in prime time (especially fleeting
  utterance
• 35

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Regulating Profane Language

• FCC v. Pacifica case
• Offensive language can be fined
• Carlins 7 dirty words
• Created safe harbor period
• Between 1000 pm and 600 am

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What is Profane

• Those words that are so highly offensive that
  their mere utterance in the context presented
  may, in legal terms, amount to a nuisance.
• Because the broadcast audience is constantly
  tuning in and out, prior warnings cannot
  completely protect the listener or viewer from
  unexpected program content.

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Fraud or Private Life?

• Michelle Bruce should have revealed to voters she
  use to be a man
• 28
• None of voters business that Michelle Bruce use
  to be Mitchell Bruce
• 72

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Is this Hate Speech?

• Restrict a minister and his church?

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Restrict Rev. Phelps Speech?

• YES, the government should pass laws restricting
  Fred Phelps and his church from protesting
  funerals
• 80
• NO, Fred Phelps and his church should be allowed
  to express their opinions even at funerals
• 20

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Free Speech Case of the Day Professor Bill
Ayers
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What should the Univ of Nebraska do?

• YES / Univ of Nebraska was right to rescind Bill
  Ayers invitation to speak on campus
• B. NO / Univ of Nebraksa should NOT rescind Bill
  Ayers invitation to speak on campus

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Why is Free Speech so Important?

• What do
• you think?

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Why is Free Speech so important in society?

• 1. Cornerstone of self-government
• 2. Allows discovery of the truth
• 3. Promotes individual dignity self-worth
• 4. Any regime for speech control would be
  unworkable and dangerous to society

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How are we (US society) doing?

• Just how free are we?
• Give US a grade
• A.
• Excellent, were the freest society on the face
  of the earth!
• B.
• Were doing OK, some good, some bad.
• C.
• Weve FLUNKED the founders conception of a truly
  free society.

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Criteria for Evaluating Extent of Freedom of
Speech in Society

• 1. Freedom to communicate without fear of
  government sanctions or censorship
• 2. Freedom from compulsory speech
• 3. Freedom of access to effective channels of
  communication
• 4. Freedom from government control of speech
  environment (speech privacy)