Watchdog function. The accepted responsibility of the media to protect the public from incompetent or corrupt officials by standing ready to expose any official who violates accepted legal, ethical, or performance standards.

watchdog role. the accepted responsibility of the media to protect the public from deceitful, careless, incompetent and corrupt officials by standing ready to expose any official who violates accepted legal, ethical or performance standards. political partisanship.

Signaler role. Definition: The accepted responsibility of the media to alert the public to important developments as soon as possible after they happened or are discovered.

“Common-carrier role” refers to the idea that the media acts as a vehicle through which political leaders can communicate with the general public.

A common carrier is a private or public entity that transports goods or people for a fee. Utility companies and telecommunications companies also are considered common carriers. A common carrier, unlike a private carrier, must provide its service to anyone willing to pay its fee, unless it has grounds for refusal.

A common carrier, in telecommunications, is an entity that provides wired and wireless communication services to the general public for a fee. Whether or not the FCC has the legal right to declare that internet service providers (ISPs) are common carriers is a major consideration in the net neutrality debate.

If a carrier reserves the right of choosing customers or goods to carry, then they are not a common carrier.

A common carrier includes companies like FedEx or UPS. They will deliver packages and goods for different people and companies. They accept responsibility for any loss or damages in the transportation process. Common Carriers include the USPS, UPS, and FEDEX.

In the United States, a common carrier (or simply “carrier”) is an entity whose business transports people or goods from one place to another for a fee. Carriers may be held liable for the injuries of passengers, but only if the plaintiff can prove negligence.

Cruise ships departing from U.S. ports are deemed common carriers pursuant to the Shipping Act of 1984, 46 U.S.C. §1702(6). Common carriers owe their passengers a heightened duty of care in protecting them from physical harm and ensuring they arrive at their destinations safely.

An individual or business that advertises to the public that it is available for hire to transport people or property in exchange for a fee. A common carrier that unjustifiably refuses to carry a particular person or cargo may be sued for damages. …

Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary An individual, a company, or a public utility (like municipal buses) that is in the regular business of transporting people or freight, and must do so as long as the approved charge or fare is paid.

A common carrier is responsible for injuries suffered by a passenger on account of the willful acts or negligence of other passengers or of strangers, if the common carrier’s employees through the exercise of the diligence of a good father of a family could have prevented or stopped the act or omission.”

A common carrier is required to observe extraordinary diligence, and is presumed to be at fault or to have acted negligently in case of the loss of the effects of passengers, or the death or injuries to passengers. …

Common carriers owe their passengers the highest duty of care to provide safe transportation. The reasonableness of the carrier’s actions can be used as a defense. Innkeepers owe guests a higher duty of care and must reasonably protect guests from foreseeable harm.

Thus, Uber vehicles and Lyft vehicles are considered common carriers.

Common carriers provide for-hire truck transportation to the general public. Contract carriers provide for-hire truck transportation to specific, individual shippers, based on contracts. Contract carriers must file only liability (BI & PD) insurance.

Public airlines, railroads, bus lines, taxicab companies, phone companies, internet service providers, cruise ships, motor carriers (i.e., canal operating companies, trucking companies), and other freight companies generally operate as common carriers.

What are the types of freight carriers in logistics?

• Common Carriers and Contract Carriers. Common carriers are the carriers who service the freight shipping needs of the public.
• Local, Regional and National Carriers.
• Private Carriers and For-Hire Carriers.

Common carrier means an air, land or water motorized transportation carrier operating under a regularly published schedule and current license as required by law for the conveyance of passengers. Common carrier does not include helicopters, taxis, rental cars, hired cars and private and contract carriers.

What is Carrier’s Liability? Quite simply, it’s what the carrier is responsible for when it comes to shipment losses, damages and delays. However, there are exceptions – 17 to be exact, including: any loss or damage resulting from an act of the shipper (that’s you);

A common carrier can lawfully refuse to carry the goods: 1. If there is no space in the vehicle. 2. If the goods are not of the type he usually professes to carry.

(1) “Bailee” means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. (2) “Carrier” means a person that issues a bill of lading.

Bailee’s customer insurance protects businesses against damage, destruction, or loss of customer property while it is in their possession. A bailee may be any person or business who has been given temporary custody of someone else’s property.

A bailee is an individual who temporarily gains possession, but not ownership, of a good or other property. The bailee, who is also called a custodian, is entrusted with the possession of the good or property by another individual known as the bailor.

The bailee has right to claim proportionate share in mixed goods. According to Section 155 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, It is the duty of bailee, not to mix the goods bailed with his own goods without the consent of the bailor.

Duties of a Bailee

• Take proper care of goods. According to section 151, it is the duty of a bailee to take care of goods bailed to him.
• Not to make unauthorized use.
• Keep goods separate.
• Not set adverse title.
• Return Goods.
• Return increase or profits.

A bailment is ended when its purpose has been achieved, when the parties agree that it is terminated, or when the bailed property is destroyed. A bailment created for an indefinite period is terminable at will by either party, as long as the other party receives due notice of the intended termination.

Duties of the bailor

• Duty to disclose faults.
• Duty to repay bailee’s expenses.
• Duty to indemnify the bailee.
• Duty to compensate bailee for breach of warranty.
• Duty to claim back the goods.
• Right to enforce bailee’s performance.
• Right to claim damages.
• Right to claim compensation against unauthorized use of goods.