Mass communications lawa body of primarily federal statutes regulations and judicial decisions that govern radio broadcast cable and satellite television and other means of electronic communication source for information on mass communications law wests encyclopedia of american law dictionary. Law of mass communications freedom and control of print and broadcast media by teeter dwight l le duc don r loving bill publication date 1998 topics press law mass media publisher new york foundation press collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks china digitizing sponsor internet archive contributor internet archive language english kept up to date by supplements . The 1934 act set out a regulatory structure that would govern mass communications law for more than 60 years with the fcc as the governing regulatory body the law also made clear that the federal government has sole jurisdiction over modern mass communication. The term mass media refers to the means of public communication reaching a large audience when members of the general public refer to the media they are usually referring to the mass media or to thenews media which is a section of the mass media sometimes mass media are referred to as the corporate media