Communication Studies A100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Narrowcasting, American Civil Liberties Union, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions
28 Dec 2020
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News is supposed to be a mirror for society. There are an infinite number of stories to tell, but you can only tell some. Pressure to fill your news hour with news. In order to tell a story, there has to be enough time between the story and 5:00. Regularized to get the story on the news. Taking sides: is profit the bottom line (yes?) Liberal cartel media to move to the left. In order to have a liberal media, there has to be a liberal cartel. But if profit is the bottom line, there would be too much motivation for the. But maybe, news audience is more liberal than average american. However, there is still pressure to get some people on the right. Maybe they"re willing to trade profit for political agenda. There are a lot of the who are very conservative. There are a lot more boards of directors, and they can"t all have the same agenda.
