MCOM 4003 - Carlin Whaley

 Can We Really Trust the News     In today's world, we receive news in a lot of different ways. For example, television, magazines, email, mail, social media, or if you are from a small town like I am, then you receive a lot of news just from gossip, and trust me it spreads like a wildfire. Depending on the age of a person determines where you will usually get your news from. Older individuals are more than likely going to get their information from the television on their local news channel, middle-aged people are probably going to get a lot of their news from Facebook, and teenagers are getting information from platforms such as Tik Tok. To put it into numbers, 31% get their news from Facebook, 13% from Twitter, 22% from Youtube, 11% from Instagram, 6% from Tik Tok, and 4% from Snapchat.       Using Magnolia as an example growing up, you wanted to be the one to know the news and exploit it to all of your friends first. It was always coming to school the n...

  Copyright in the Music and Fashion Industries along with Celebrities          Copyright protects an individual's work such as text, images, music, novels, etc. When copyright is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is in the music industry or the fashion world.            In the music industry when you copyright your work, you have to copyright the lyrics and recordings separately. If you use or copy someone's same sound from a song that the author has copyrighted then you could likely be sued. If you are in the music industry and would like to use a sound from someone else's copyrighted work, then you have to go through the process of getting permission from the copyright holder.            In the fashion industry, you would think that you would be able to copyright your designs or a line of clothes done by an artist but as of right now you are not able to. This is why you see...

           If you look up the definition of "reporter's privilege", it describes it as reporters being protected from being forced to reveal information or their sources after they were sworn to keep it private. When a source reveals information to a reporter, they both come up with an agreement on the confidentiality of the situation. Each state usually has its own laws about reporter's privilege.          In 2001, one of the first cases regarding reporter's privilege was a journalist who was sent to jail for refusing to come forth with her sources about an article she had written a book about a Houston murder. She was ordered a subpoena which she refused to respond to and this was not a smart decision. She spent time in jail longer than any other journalist at the time. After she was released from jail, she informed the jury that if she was subpoenaed again she would go back to jail. She fought the case saying "If that's wha...