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Web Quiz — Chapter 14
1. What is prior restraint?
2. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, are there ever any circumstances under which prior restraint can be justified? What are those circumstances?
3. What is the three-part local test for determining if a work is obscene?
4. What are the three defenses the press can use when faced with a libel suit? AND briefly, what does each one mean?
5. What are the four ways in which the media can be guilty of invasion of privacy?
6. What major effect is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 expected to have?