Test 4 Questions MC TF test with correct answers 2024

Nudity is synonymous with obscenity. - correct answer False A person who "panders" may be convicted for commercial exploitation of sexual material even though the material is not obscene. - correct answer True Adult-oriented pay-cable services such as the Playboy Channel are prohibited from operating between 6a.m. and 10p.m. - correct answer False Lower courts have interpreted the US Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas decision as barring prosecutions for the distribution of obscene materials. - correct answer False The governmental interest in protecting minors justifies laws which prohibit the sale of sexually-oriented magazines to minors, even when those magazines may be legally sold to adults. - correct answer True A reporter investigating child pornography on the internet has a First Amendment right to download images of children engaged in sexual acts. - correct answer False In Reno v. ACLU and Sable Communications v. FCC, the US Supreme Court said that users of the internet and dial-it telephone services are unlikely to accidentally confront indecent sexual expression. - correct answer True The Family Movie Act allows the sale and use of software permitting users to render "imperceptible" objectionable portions of films. Viewers are not allowed to make fixed copies of the altered versions of films. - correct answer True A website with information about preventing breast cancer, including photographs showing how a breast self examination should be conducted, is subject to the FCCs indecency rules. - correct answer False Members of a church may picket on the public sidewalk adjacent to an adult video store as long as they do not trespass or block the entrances. This picketing is legal even if the church members seek to deter potential customers from entering the store. - correct answer True The FCC does not regard the words pissed and crap to be presumptively indecent and profane when uttered in entertainment programming airing at 9pm. - correct answer True Producers and distributors of materials depicting "actual sexually explicit conduct" are required to maintain records of their models' ages and identities. - correct answer True According to the US supreme court, public libraries receiving federal funds may be required to install filters on computers connected to the internet. - correct answer True The 1957 case in which the US Supreme Court first held that obscenity was unprotected expression. - correct answer Roth v. United States Prior restraints are... - correct answer permitted in the case of sexually oriented films of the procedures specified in Freedman v. Maryland are followed. After a particularly contentious and close NASCAR race, the winning driver exults in a cable television interview that his rival drivers can "all kiss my ass." This interview is cablecast live at 7pm. This cablecast is: a. obscene b. indecent c. profane d. all of the above e. none of the above - correct answer e. none of the above The First Amendment explicitly says that journalists have a constitutional right to withhold the names of confidential sources. - correct answer False The SC has recognized in the First Amendment an "implied" right for journalists to withhold the names of confidential sources. - correct answer False By 2014, only 12 states have enacted statutes allowing journalists to withhold the names of confidential sources. - correct answer False A reporters privilege is not recognized in military jurisprudence. - correct answer True The SC has never recognized a First Amendment right for journalists to withhold the names of confidential sources. - correct answer True Courts and legislatures sometimes require that journalists promise confidentiality to sources if journalists wish to claim a privilege to withhold the names of the sources. - correct answer True Even when judges reject First Amendment and common law privilege claims, journalists may assert the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination if they are able to convince a judge there is a reasonable fear their testimony will lead to a criminal prosecution. - correct answer True Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from prison when the SC overturned lower court rulings that misinterpreted Branzburg v. Hayes. - correct answer False Some lower court judges have interpreted Justice Powell's concurring opinion in Branzburg v. Hayes as support for the dissenters' view that journalists should have a constitutional right to withhold confidential sources. - correct answer True Prosecutors are more likely to have a "compelling" need for a journalist's information in a criminal case--when a defendants life or freedom may be at stake--than in a civil case. - correct answer True A federal shield law allows "anyone who disseminates information to the public" to shield confidential sources from courts and grand juries. - correct answer False Judicial skepticism toward a First Amendment-based journalists's privilege has markedly increased since 2001. - correct answer True Recent cases show federal courts are finding support for a journalists's privilege in the federal common law. - correct answer False Although Justice Stewart dissented in Branzburg v. Hayes, his opinion has been widely incorporated into shield laws. - correct answer True Journalists sometimes lose a statutory privilege to withhold confidential sources if the journalists observe--are witnesses to--criminal activity. - correct answer True Since 9/11, the number of subpoenas requiring journalists to reveal sources has increased. - correct answer True Journalists fear the public may be denied valuable reports because sources may "dry up" if journalists cannot promise confidentiality. - correct answer True Confidential sources promised confidentiality may sue for breach of contract if they are hurt by a journalists's disclosure of their identity. - correct answer True California shield law protects journalists whose work is published on websites. - correct answer True Courts recognizing a First Amendment-based journalists's privilege have limited the privilege to the traditional news media. - correct answer False The case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that congress could ban obscene sexual messages provided by commercial telephone services, but could not ban indecent telephone services. - correct answer Sable Communications v. FCC Parents who are concerned about their children's access to sexually-explicit cable television programs may: a. purchase a V-chip b. ask their cable company to block their home from certain channels featuring sexual material c. ask their cable company for a lockbox d. all of the above - correct answer d. all of the above In Fox Broadcasting II, the US Supreme Court.... - correct answer Found the FCC failed to give Fox and ABC fair notice that fleeting expletives and momentary nudity could be found indecent. Safe Harbor - correct answer The time period from 10pm to 6am when broadcast stations may air indecent material without incurring FCC sanctions. To balance the government's need to protect children with the interest of willing adults in receiving indecent broadcasts, the FCC has focused its indecency regulation on the period when children are likely to be in the audience. Thus, indecency regulation is designed to channel sexually explicit material to certain times of day, rather than completely ban it. Justice White, who wrote the opinion for the court in Branzburg v. Hayes, and Justice Stewart, who dissented, disagreed because... - correct answer Justice White did not believe that sources would dry up if journalists had no right to promise confidentiality, Justice White saw the press as strong and hearty while Justice Stewart viewed the press as more vulnerable, Justice White thought it would be difficult to define who would get a privilege of confidentiality if one were created In Branzburg v. Hayes, the SC... - correct answer Did not establish a privilege permitting journalists to refuse to testify before a grand jury. Justice White, author of the courts opinion in Branzburg v. Hayes, demonstrated: - correct answer a. a deference to the authority of duly authorized grand juries to carry out their tasks of gathering and weighing information. b. a fundamental disagreement with Justice Stewart--the dissenter--over the ability of the press to report news if the names of sources must be disclosed to grand jurors.