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The Mass Media and The Political Agenda (Chp 7)
High tech politics is politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers, including the political agenda, is shaped by technology
Mass media is tv, magazines, newspaper, and radio
The Mass Media Today A media event is staged for the purpose of being covered
The development of media politics
FDR invented media politics
A press conference is a meeting with reporters
Investigative journalism is using detective like reporting methods to check up on state of government officials
The print media
The first admement helped out news papersdehtey
The emergence of radio and television
Electronic media has displaced print media
TV showed lying of war by gov
Government regulation of electronic media
FCC regulates airwaves
FCC is independent but is influenced by the government
No single owner can own over 35% of broadcast market
From Broadcasting to narrowcasting: The rise of cable and cable news
Narrowcasting is rather then appealing to a general audience focus on a narrow interest
Only 11 percent of time was taken up by written and edited stories
Cable news channels fail to cover political events symmetrically
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