21. Framing the War on Terror Discussion: List/describe the number of frames that have been used to characterize the War on Terror Familiar with Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast in 1939? What does that event tells about media effects?
Editor's Notes
How do newscasters decide what news to broadcast/publish? *handful of editors (associated press, new york times, washington post, time, newsweek, abc, nbc, cbs)… the media monitors each other *political candidates (by choosing which issues to bring up) *public relations professionals (newspapers get a lot of what they print from news releases) *interest groups *news events—sometimes news events are so big that they cannot help but make it to the news (e.g., 9-11)