What does it mean to have a free news media? What regulations limit what media can do? How do the media contribute to informing citizens and monitoring politicians and the government, and how do we measure their impact? This chapter explores these and other questions about the role of the media in the United States.

Chapter 8 - The Media. An audiobook production of American Government 3e, an OpenStax textbook. This textbook provides an introduction to US government and civics, and is used widely in college-level Political Science courses. OpenStax textbooks and this podcast are offered under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA). Text available for free at https://openstax.org. Narrated by Brian Barrick and Sarah Arya (audiobook@fastmail.com).

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⏳ TIME STAMPS:
0:00:00 - Welcome
0:00:37 - Introduction
0:02:14 - What Is the Media? (8.1)
0:28:21 - The Evolution of the Media (8.2)
1:00:38 - Regulating the Media (8.3)
1:32:12 - The Impact of the Media (8.4)
1:58:37 - Credits

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This is an audio adaptation of American Government 3e by OpenStax. Access for free at openstax.org. Some editorial changes were made to ensure a better listening experience. The audio from this project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

The video portion only of this project includes some licensed components and is not covered under the Creative Commons license. The intro and outro music is “Take Me Higher” by Jahzzar (CC-BY-SA). [https://bit.ly/jahzzarsong]

Please be aware that two audio clips used in this chapter are not covered under a Creative Commons license. Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 radio broadcast at the 39 minute mark was provided by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (www.fdrlibrary.org/utterancesfdr). Dan Rather's interview with George H.W. Bush at the 1hr46 minute mark was originally broadcast on the CBS Nightly News in January 1988. It is likely copyrighted by CBS Broadcasting, Inc. You can view the interview in its entirety on C-SPAN (https://www.c-span.org/video/?752-1/dan-interview-george-bush).

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🤝SPECIAL THANKS:
The funding for this project was provided by CC-ECHO (California Consortium for Equitable Change in Hispanic Serving Institutions Open Educational Resources). You can learn more about CC-ECHO at https://www.hancockcollege.edu/ccecho.

The contents of this audiobook were developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education.  However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

Chapter 9 - Political Parties

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