First amendment freedom of speech coursework

A majority of the TV, news and radio broadcasting corporations are enterprises licensed by the government and this puts a damper on the content shared by the media houses. According to the Gallup poll, only a third of the American population trusts the media (Post, p. This is largely because the media content is controlled by the government. Additionally, the state laws that are meant to protect sources for news reporters are not enforced as the reporters are usually fined or jailed if they do not reveal their sources. This was evident in the year 2004 when Judith Miller was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for not revealing her source for the identity of a CIA operative (Graber & Dunaway, p.