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Ch10 PoliticScience

Chapter Ten

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Agenda Setting Media's ability to influence what is on people's minds.
Common-carrier function the way media serves as a conduit through which political leaders communicate with the public.
Framing the way which events are cast
Priming the process by which a communicated massage, because it's content, activates certain opinions but not others.
The watch dog function The press's assumed responsibility for exposing incompetent, hypocritical, and corrupt officials.
Press/News Media News and public affair outlets
Objective Journalism based on the reporting of "facts" rather than opinions and is "fair" in that it represents both sides of partisan debate.
Partisan Press publishers openly backing one publisher or another.
Signaling function (..of the press)the media seeks to alert the public to important developments as soon as possible after they happened.
nation's early newspapers too expensive for the average citizen and they contained a lot of propaganda.
William Randolph Hearst enhanced public support for a war in Cuba against Spain in 1898.
Yellow journalism was replaced by objective journalism
the chief advocate of objective journalism Adolph Ochs
The Communications Act created the Federal Communications Commission.
The Federal Communications Commission is responsible for the regulation of broadcasting
What is the "equal time" provision of the Communications Act? It is a law that requires broadcasters to afford all candidates the same opportunity to advertise at the same cost and requires presidential candidates to debate on television.
broadcasters were prohibited by law from editorializing.. During the era of objective journalism.
Fairness Doctrine Until the 1980s, broadcasters were bound by it; which required their news programming to treat fairly all sides of the debate on controversial issues.
More than 95 percent of the nation's daily newspapers are serviced by the Associated Press.
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