1. Introduction
   1. freedom of speech
   2. fourth power
   3. hold by private companies
2. The Press
   1. USA Today
   2. Daily Telegraph
   3. East Coast
      1. The New York Times
         1. most popular abroad
         2. liberal
      2. Washington Post
         1. published in Washington, D.C.
         2. national politics
         3. 1972
            1. Watergate scandal
      3. The Boston Globe
         1. sex scandal in the Roman Catholic Church
            1. 2002
      4. The International Herald Tribune
         1. New York Times Company
         2. 160 countries
      5. The Wall Street Journal
         1. second most widely circulated
   4. West Coast
      1. Los Angeles Times
         1. 4th biggest
      2. The San Francisco Chronicle
   5. Magazines
      1. Time
         1. largest news weekly
         2. 25 million globally
      2. Newsweek
      3. The New Yorker
         1. focuses on literature, culture and reportage
      4. The Atlantic
         1. published 10 times a year
         2. politics, foreign affairs and culture
      5. The Christian Science Monitor
         1. Church of Christ
         2. not a religious in character
         3. objectivism and solid reporting
         4. won seven Pulitzer Prizes
   6. the Pulitzer Prize
      1. award for achievements in online and newspaper journalism
      2. NYT
         1. 106
3. The Radio
   1. Corporation for Public Broadcasting
      1. National Public Radio (NPR)
         1. 1970
         2. financed both from the private sources and the federal budget
      2. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
   2. American Public Media
   3. Public Radio International
4. The TV
   1. regional
      1. ABC, CBS, NBC (called sometimes the Big Three) and Fox (Broadcasting Company)
   2. "prime time"
      1. between 7 pm to 10 pm
   3. responsible for spreading American culture including many American stereotypes and stereotypes on America round the globe
   4. PBS
      1. Public Broadcasting Service
      2. 300 member stations
      3. provide the viewers with programmes of high educational and cultural values
   5. Cable TV
      1. 1940s
      2. 24-hour news television
         1. CNN
            1. 1980
            2. Ted Turner
            3. national: CNN/US
            4. global: CNN/International
         2. Fox News
            1. Rupert Murdoch
            2. conservative bias
   6. Emmy Award and Golden Globe Awards
      1. awards for outstanding television productions
      2. Emmy: American only
      3. Golden Globe: globally
5. The Internet
   1. 2004
      1. three fourths of American households online
   2. Internet service companies and portals
      1. Facebook
      2. Google
      3. AOL
         1. America Online
      4. Yahoo!