The First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” (Case Summaries, n.d.). Much as media legislation can be controversial due to First Amendment protections, censorship in the media is often hotly debated. If you’ve ever been banned from reading a book in school, or watched a “clean” version of a movie on an airplane, you’ve experienced censorship. More controversial is censorship at a political or religious level. A common, everyday example can be found on the radio or television, where potentially offensive words are “bleeped” out. Censorship is defined as suppressing or removing anything deemed objectionable. To fully understand the issues of censorship and freedom of speech and how they apply to modern media, we must first explore the terms themselves. Describe how the Hays Code affected 20th-century American mass media.Explain the FCC’s process of classifying material as indecent, obscene, or profane.
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