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MC 101 LITTLE FINAL EXAM MOST COMPREHENSIVE 2026
QUESTIONS EXAM LATEST VERSION SOLVED QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS VERIFIED 100 %
First Amendment
free speech & freedom of the press (our main focus is press)
Alien & Sedition laws of 1798
sedition - being fined or potentially going to jail for writing or publishing false,
scandalous, and malicious writing against the government, congress, or president
John Adams
Espionage Act of 1918
Passed during WWI, it became a crime to say or write anything that could be viewed
as helping the enemy
Smith Act of 1940
Passed during WWII, it placed some restrictions on free speech
Reporters were required to submit their stories for government censorship before
publication
HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee - set a tone of aggressive Communist
hunting (something with the Hollywood ten)
Near v. Minnesota
1931 case, newspaper publisher Jay Near made racist, anti-Semitic charges in
paper
Minnesota court stopped near from publishing
U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prior restraint could only be used to suppress military
information in time of war and obscenity
The Progressive Case
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- Progressive magazine tried to get story about how nuclear weapons worked
published
- Story was all based on public information
- District court issued restraining order against magazine
- Other authors published the same information as was in Progressive article
- Order was rendered moot and dismissed
Press Pool/ pool reporting
an arrangement that places reporters in small, government-supervised groups to
cover an event
"embedded" reporters
During Iraq War members of the press traveled with the military, but the press's
movements were restricted and managed by their military units
WikiLeaks & Julian Assange
WikiLeaks, founded in 2006 by Australian Julian Assange, is a whistle-blowing
organization devoted to uncovering government secrets and publishing them on its
Website
- In late July 2010, WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of confidential military
documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- On November 28, 2010, The NYT began publishing a series of articles based on a
news release of State Department documents
- The Times acknowledged that WikiLeaks originally obtained the documents but did
not directly cite WikiLeaks as the source
- He was living inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
- Assange has been confided in Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019. He is
currently fighting extradition to the U.S.
(BASICALLY JUST KNOW THERE WAS A LEAKING OF GOVERNMENT
DOCUMENTS - & HE PUT THEM OUT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE)
PATRIOT act
In 2001, Congress passed the PATRIOT Act to give the U.S. government broader
powers to track, detain, and interrogate people who were deemed a threat to the
country
- The FBI was allowed to obtain "business records" including public library records
- The American Library Association said librarians would cooperate with an
investigation, but only if they received a search warrant
MC 101 LITTLE FINAL EXAM MOST COMPREHENSIVE 2026
QUESTIONS EXAM LATEST VERSION SOLVED QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS VERIFIED 100 %
First Amendment
free speech & freedom of the press (our main focus is press)
Alien & Sedition laws of 1798
sedition - being fined or potentially going to jail for writing or publishing false,
scandalous, and malicious writing against the government, congress, or president
John Adams
Espionage Act of 1918
Passed during WWI, it became a crime to say or write anything that could be viewed
as helping the enemy
Smith Act of 1940
Passed during WWII, it placed some restrictions on free speech
Reporters were required to submit their stories for government censorship before
publication
HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee - set a tone of aggressive Communist
hunting (something with the Hollywood ten)
Near v. Minnesota
1931 case, newspaper publisher Jay Near made racist, anti-Semitic charges in
paper
Minnesota court stopped near from publishing
U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prior restraint could only be used to suppress military
information in time of war and obscenity
The Progressive Case
, Page 2 of 10
- Progressive magazine tried to get story about how nuclear weapons worked
published
- Story was all based on public information
- District court issued restraining order against magazine
- Other authors published the same information as was in Progressive article
- Order was rendered moot and dismissed
Press Pool/ pool reporting
an arrangement that places reporters in small, government-supervised groups to
cover an event
"embedded" reporters
During Iraq War members of the press traveled with the military, but the press's
movements were restricted and managed by their military units
WikiLeaks & Julian Assange
WikiLeaks, founded in 2006 by Australian Julian Assange, is a whistle-blowing
organization devoted to uncovering government secrets and publishing them on its
Website
- In late July 2010, WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of confidential military
documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- On November 28, 2010, The NYT began publishing a series of articles based on a
news release of State Department documents
- The Times acknowledged that WikiLeaks originally obtained the documents but did
not directly cite WikiLeaks as the source
- He was living inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
- Assange has been confided in Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019. He is
currently fighting extradition to the U.S.
(BASICALLY JUST KNOW THERE WAS A LEAKING OF GOVERNMENT
DOCUMENTS - & HE PUT THEM OUT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE)
PATRIOT act
In 2001, Congress passed the PATRIOT Act to give the U.S. government broader
powers to track, detain, and interrogate people who were deemed a threat to the
country
- The FBI was allowed to obtain "business records" including public library records
- The American Library Association said librarians would cooperate with an
investigation, but only if they received a search warrant
