The Government's Willingness to Regulate Broadcast Media More Heavily Than

question 49

Multiple Choice

The government's willingness to regulate broadcast media more heavily than print media reflects:

• A) public demands for a better political balance on television
• B) the history of partisan ownership of newspapers
• C) the fact that the framers did not anticipate broadcasting and therefore could not protect it in the Constitution
• D) the belief that the airways are public property
• E) the creation of the twenty-four-hour news cycle

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