Recent months have seen increased calls by both consumers and government agents for legislative action regarding privacy protection online. Both groups agree that self-regulation by the online industry does not appear to be working to protect consumer privacy on the Internet. This study investigates how Internet advertising practitioners perceive consumer attitudes towards practices involving information collection and usage, and whether these practitioners respond to known concerns in their work. A survey of practitioners suggests that practioners are aware of consumer privacy concerns. A content analysis of web sites developed by responding practitioners, however, indicates that the practitioners are failing to take appropriate actions to address these concerns. Few sites that collected information posted privacy policies, and sites with policies rarely addressed three of the FTCS four core principles of information privcy.
This study indicates that National Public Radio and Pacifica, despite their “alternative” origins, produce news programming that is largely grounded in the same journalistic values and routines as “mainstream” commercial broadcast journalism. A content analysis of NPR's All Things Considered and Pacifica Radio News, however, found several significant differences between these two producers of public radio news in the United States. Pacifica broadcast a higher percentage of stories dealing with governance and stories with an international focus, and presented a higher percentage of officials and activists as sources than did NPR.
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