Television, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication.
What is Mass Media?
100
The news show stories that
draw a larger crowd
100
Who depends heavily on the media to get their ideas placed high on the governmental agenda?
Political activists
200
Public officials can usually leak this to reporters to see what the political reaction will be.
What are trial balloons?
200
Which president was the most concerned with his public appearance?
Ronald Reagan
200
The medias increasing public attention to specific issues is a major feature of the media's
Agenda setting power
300
People who invest their political "capital" in an issue.
What are Policy Entrepreneurs?
300
A large part of today's so called 30 second presidency is the
TV commercial
300
Citizens may alter their beliefs of political leaders in response to how the media portrays them.
Which of the following is a potential consequence of the media's agenda-setting powers?
400
The list of subjects or problems to which government officials, and people outside of government closely associated with those officials, are paying some serious attention at any given time
What is Political Agenda?
400
Due to the rise of TV broadcasting..
Candidates arecapable of running for office on their own by appealing to the public directly through TV .
400
In order to receive a broadcasting license, a station must
serve the public interest
500
A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology.
What are high tech politics?
500
The president was rarely directly questioned by the media.
What happened prior to the 1930's that is significantly different now?