PLAP 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Main Source, Scientific Control, Laundry Detergent
11 Dec 2016
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Nicole eramo won her defamation suit against rolling stone and was awarded. Election polling post-mortem - thursday from 12:30-1:30 in wilson. Will be available under tests and quizzes. Covers scandals through (including) media effects 2. Multiple choice with some possible short-answer questions. Patterns of media exposure - these are key, will be on quiz. Rise of cable news (but network news still dominates) Viewing varies by age, partisanship: polarization of news. 4 in 10 often get news online - 38% compared to 57% of tv. Reminder that we are not normal - we, as relatively well off, well-educated millennials, interact with the media differently than most of the us. Trust in mass media is on the decline. Total: 54% trust cnn, 50% trust abc, 50% nbc news. Consistently conservative: fox news is most trusted. Wall street journal - red feed; blue feed. Social media networks are sorting news for us based on what they think we want to see.
