chapter seven - mass media Flashcards
high-tech politics
politics in which the behavior of citizens and policy makers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology.
mass media
events staged for the media and are significant because the media is there.
press confrence
meetings of public officials with reporters.
watergate and vietnam
filled skepticism towards the government in reporters and citizens minds.
investigative journalism
the use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals and scams.
thomas patterson
found that news coverage of presidential candidates were increasingly less favorable.
print media
newspapers and magazines that are compared with electronic media.
electronic media
televisions, radios and the internet as compared with print media.
first american daily newspaper printed….
in Philadelphia on 1783
citizens who read the news are…
most likely to be more educated than the average TV news watcher
Popularization of the radio occurred in…
The mid-1930s
when was the radio most used
during world war two
televison…
took the nation to the war in vietnam in the 1960s
the FCC
(est. 1934) was crated by congress to regulate the use of airwaves.
who is the FCC being controlled by and face political pressure by
congress and the president
right-of-reply rule
if a person is attacked on a broadcast other than the news, then that person has the right to reply via he same station.
broadcasting
their signal is being sent out to a broad audience and the network itself takes/goes over a diverse section of topics.
narrowcasting
media programming or the internet that is focused on a particular interest and is aimed at a particular audience.
common criticism of cable news:
channels have failed to systematically cover political events and issues.
columbia university study:
240 hrs of cables news during 2003
- prime role of reporter was to talk extemporaneously
- stories were frequently repeated
chains
groups of newspapers published by media conglomerates and today accounting for over four-fifth of the nation’s daily newspaper circulation.
trial ballons
intentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction.
