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Media in Gov
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is happening to readership | declining |
| what is happening to competition | declining |
| What is happening to fragmentation and specialization | increasing |
| What is happening to info access | increasing |
| what is the main goal of coverage | linkage institution |
| Order of most important branches on media | Exec, Legis, Judicial |
| technology appeals to: | least common denominator |
| trial balloon | testing water for public opinion |
| gatekeeper | controls agenda |
| watchdog | drawing attention to something (adversaries with gov) |
| Photo Op | planned, posed pic |
| Soundbite | short memorable phrase |
| horse race coverage | seeing who's ahead and behind |
| Bias | built in, from viewpoint |
| spin | make story look good |
| symbiotic | mutually beneficial |
| adversarial | enemies |
| leak | "unwanted info" out |
| Public opinion | complex collection of opinions of different people |
| how to measure public opinion | elections, interest groups, the media, polls |
| what is straw polling? | ask same Q to lots of people, quantity>quality, |
| what is the polling process? | define universe, construct sample, prepare valid Qs, select and control how poll will be taken, analyze and report |
| how to evaluate polls | stability, intensity, relevance |
| what are the limits of polling? | polls not elections, minority interests over majority rules is completely ignored |
| what is the order of media's influence? | 1. tv 2. internet 3. newspapers 4. radio 5. magazines |
| 1st televised gov thing | FDR 1959 |
| When was the first trans continental report? | 1951 w/ Truman |
| Public agenda | societal problems that nation's political leaders and general public agree need gov attention |
| limits on media influence | not many people well informed, people watch what they agree with, more entertainment based, people skim |
| why is public opinion important? | pop sov, lim gov, pop consent, democracy |
| what are some liberal beliefs? | equality>freedom>order, loose construction, social freedom |
| what is a tracking poll? | done on daily basis with small sample |
| what is an exit poll? | a poll done when people are leaving an event |