Agenda Setting

Question 1

What is agenda setting?

Answer 1

News anchors deciding what narrative to shift consumers

Question 2

What does GMG argue about agenda setting

Answer 2

Content of the news = going to be support or not too critical of the dominant ideology or the r/c

• the news can shape the publics view about certain topics

Question 3

A02: for agenda setting

Answer 3

• philo: financial crash 2008 - the media focused on solutions to the banking crisis not changing the system
• individuals were to blame not the system