3. The Media
News organizations and
journalists of either the print
(newspapers, magazines),
broadcast (television, radio) or
internet (websites, newsfeeds,
blogs) media.
5. What is “news”?
Timely – new, unfolding events
rather than old, static ones.
Dramatic – striking
developments vs. commonplace
ones.
Compelling – developments
which arouse people’s emotions
6. The quality of democracy
depends upon the quality
of the media
7. The Jon
Stewart
Principle
High Quality Information
and Debate are Essential
to a Functioning
Democracy
11. “Sixty percent of those who use both [TV
and the Internet] simultaneously report that
they regularly have the television on while
they are using the Internet.”
Al Gore, The Assault on Reason
49. Agenda Setting & Framing
Today’s Media Agenda
1. Paint McCain as a senile
old fool.
2. Make sure people
associate Clinton with the
B-word.
3. Make certain the public
sees Obama as Jesus.
4. Taxes and regulation:
B-A-D.
5. Take over the world.
62. ?
Don’t all of these involve
personal judgment of
some sort?
63.
64. FOX News's editorial policy is set from
the top down, stating that quot;The roots
of FOX News Channel's day-to-day
on-air bias are actual and direct. They
come in the form of an executive
memo distributed electronically each
morning, addressing what stories will
be covered and, often, suggesting how
they should be covered.”
Charlie Reina
former FOX News producer
76. How Fox News has
blurred the line between
commentators and
reporters.
77. Subtle techniques of slanting news
How you choose your sources.
Controlling the prominence of a
story – above or below fold,
page 1 or buried.
Solicitation and selection of
quotations.
Choose which facts to report.
Frame the meaning of stories
with the headline or first line of
story.
78. Even if we can’t be sure
media is biased (or to
what extent), we CAN
identify certain tendencies
in media coverage…
