Journalism and Immigration

There is no evidence that immigrants weaken or undermine American economic, political, or cultural institutions

Mr. Paley, owner of CBS, beefed up its news division and began to broadcast from Europe before WWII

Immigrants increase the government debt

Sarnoff predicted television would become the American people’s “principal source of entertainment, education and news,”

Mr. Paley's CBS also took down Senator McCarthy during the Red Scare

The US Department of State is overseen by the Congress

The Chinese Exclusion Act is the first immigration law targeting a specific people

The Immigration Act of 1917 establishes a literacy requirement

Without Journalism we would not have a transparent check and balance on our government.

People, including immigrants, are an economic and environmental blessing and not a curse.

Immigrants do assimilate

What is the SHIELD LAW?

The FCC mandated that some programming served the "public interest".

The Naturalization Act of 1790 applied only to free white persons of "good character"

States can make and enforce immigration laws

According to the Sedition Act, criticism of Congress or the president (but not the vice-president) was a crime

DACA does not prevent eventual deportation

The lack of available cable slowed the growth of tv as is happening now with internet

Advertising pays for broadcast, thereby making Government control unnecessary

12 million immigrants would enter the United States through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954

Immigrants have a low incidence of committing crime

The Dream Act is law

It is easy to immigrate to the US

The numerical limits established by the 1924 Immigration Act, causes illegal immigration to the United States increase.

A blogger has the same free speech protection as a journalist & can't be liable for defamation unless negligent

Libel is a written claim damaging a person or company

The First Amendment permits info, ideas and opinions without interference, constraint or prosecution by the government

to support a suit for libel plaintiff bears burden proving the publisher acted with actual malice

Immigrants abuse the welfare state

It is easy to immigrate to the US

ABC network was once the NBC Blue Network

Steerage Act-Captains submit demo info on passengers, creating first federal records on ethnic composition of immigrants

Immigrants take American jobs

What is the FCC and why did it start?

Republican immigration policies pushed immigrants away, not the other way around

Labor shortages during World War II prompt the United States and Mexico to form the Bracero Program

The Espionage Act of 1917 & the Sedition Act of 1918, which amended it, imposed restrictions on the press during wartime

Slander is a charge of false speech about someone or some entity that causes damage