Mass Media Today and the Development of Media Politics
Reporting the News
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Understanding the Mass Media
100
Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communications.
What is mass media?
100
Limit what can be report on to carefully scripted events.
What is one way politicians learn to guide the media's focus successfully?
100
News maker rely on THIS to get their message out at the same time that reporters rely on public officials to keep them in the know
Who are the journalists?
100
Media control much of technology.
What is in turn controls much of what the Americans believe about politics and government?
100
Media present problems in society such as poverty, inadequate medical care for the elderly, or poor education for certain children.
What is it that the media do to increase the task of the government?
200
Short video clips of approximately 10 seconds.
What are sound bites?
200
In today's high-tech, he can hardly lead the country if he cannot communicate effectively with it.
Who is the president?
200
President Clinton's admission that he had an "inappropriate relationship" with Monica Lewinsky.
What is an example of trial balloon?
200
In 1992, media emphasized the country's slow economic growth.
What led to George Bush's failed reelection attempt?
200
IT finds it easier to focus on individuals than on groups. For example the president is easier to cover on television than the 535 members of congress.
What is television?
300
Presidential meetings with reporters or meetings of public officials with reporters.
What are press conferences?
300
Congress created THIS to regulate communications via radio, television, telephone, cable and satellite.
What is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
300
Strangely, IT has enable the media to pass information with greater speed, yet news coverage has become less thorough.
What is technology?
300
The media get their ideas placed high on the governmental agenda.
What does the Political activists depend heavily on?
300
They rule the media in the sense that they do not care to hear about complicated political issues.
Who are the audiences/the viewers/ the people?
400
The use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, at times putting reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders.
What is investigative journalism?
400
Because of THIS, journalists now have the ability to post additional information regarding their stories, and campaigns can post more information and communicate with reporters.
What is Internet?
400
THEY have charged that the press was against them; the charge that the media have a liberal bias.
Who are the Republicans?
400
Political elites, the poor, and downtrodden.
Who can have access to the media?
400
He observed that people who bring you the evening news would like to be informative and entertaining.
Who is Matthew Kerbel?
500
The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time.
What is a policy agenda?
500
Sensational style of reporting focused on violence, corruption, wars, gossip, often with the less-than-scrupulous regard for the truth.
What is yellow journalism?
500
Surveys show that THEY are more fascinated by stories with conflict, violence, disaster, or scandal rather than unexciting good news.
Who are the people?
500
News media shape what the people think about the American political system.
What is public opinion?
500
With the media not being thorough of important policy issues, the massive amount of information available to Americans today has not visibly increased their political awareness and participation.