1. Today: Politics and Celebrities.

2. Is this an issue facing journalism?

7. Was the talk about the bow a distraction from what happened on the Asian tour?

9. Does it matter?

10. The Fourth Estate.

11. The Fourth Estate. Executive. Legislative. Judicial.

12. The Fourth Estate. Executive. Legislative. Judicial. Journalists.

13. Agenda setting.

14. Agenda setting. The media don’t tell people what to think. They tell them what to think about .

15. Agenda setting.

16. The president of the United States was meeting with leaders in China, the United States’ largest financial backer.

17. Agenda setting.

18. Framing : The media don’t tell people what to think. But they do shape how people see issues .

19. Framing : shaping how the audience sees reality.

21. Stonewalling : avoiding questions.

22. Media coverage tends to focus on leaders . Audiences like to attach a face to the news - good or bad, so the leaders often get face time.

26. Has Sarah Palin been treated fairly by the media?

30. Is Sarah Palin a politician or celebrity?

31. Is Sarah Palin a politician or celebrity?

37. Politicians are a part of our popular culture . Appearing on non-political programs humanizes politicians.

38. It works the other way around, too.

39. Our celebrities have turned their notoriety into political power.

46. Who will be next?

47. Who will be next?

48. Who will be next?

54. Do we celebrate intelligence?

56. Are celebrities newsworthy?

58. Nick Ut photographed Paris Hilton after her sentencing exactly 35 years after photographing the children running from a napalm attack in Vietnam.

59. Did Nick Ut sell out?

60. Are celebrities a distraction?

61. How do you decide what is news and what is distraction?

62. Newsworthiness criteria and the principles of journalism.

63. Some people want that information.

64. Some people want that information. That qualifies it for coverage. We just need to be sure that the audience has a marketplace of ideas .

65. Journalism is a business . Celebrities are our greatest common denominator.

66. Enjoy the weekend. On Tuesday: photojournalist Eugene Kane.