Electronic Media Law - Softcover

Sadler, Roger L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412905885 ISBN 13: 9781412905886

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Electronic Media Law is written for mass media students, not for future lawyers, so the text is straightforward and explains "legalese." The author covers First Amendment law, political broadcasting rules, broadcast content regulations, F.C.C. rules for station operations, cable regulation, media ownership rules, media liability lawsuits, intrusive newsgathering methods, media restrictions during wartime, libel, privacy, copyright, advertising law, freedom of information, cameras in the court, and privilege.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Roger L. Sadler is a full professor in the Department of Communication-Broadcasting at Western Illinois University in Macomb.  He has been at WIU since 1990.  Before that, he was an associate instructor at Indiana University and an instructor at the University of Central Oklahoma.   He has a BA in Communications/English from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, an MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri, and PhD in Mass Communication from Indiana University.      

Dr. Sadler has worked in the broadcasting field since 1979 when he got his first on-air job at his hometown radio station in Gouverneur, New York.  Since then, he has worked as a DJ, producer, news reporter, news anchor, and faculty adviser at more than a dozen radio and TV stations in New York, Missouri, Oklahoma, Indiana, and Illinois.  Presently, he is a weekend DJ on WJEQ-FM in Macomb, Illinois and works during the summer months as a news reporter for WQAD-TV in Moline, Illinois.

Review:

"Though written primarily for an American audience, this book is likely to be useful to students, practitioners and researchers in other jurisdictions as well. It covers a wide range of issues such as defamation, privacy, obscenity, copyright and contempt of court which are generic to all media as well as matters specific to the electronic media, such as TV regulation, "must-carry" rules, radio traffic jams, etc." Author: The Commonwealth Lawyer Source: Journal of the Commongwealth Lawyer′s Association Published On: 2007-04-16

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1412905885
• ISBN 13: 9781412905886
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 472