POL 165 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Greater Media, Buzzfeed, Make America Great Again
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Pol 165 list of main concepts to review for midterm. Remember: everything is fair game all lecture material and all assigned readings. It is unclear what journalists" jobs are anymore. But they are the iron core of essentially all the news we consume. Newspapers are the only news outlets with the funds to do such widespread reporting. Advertisers are putting more $ in new media. Major tv news outlets usually don"t have ij departments in the first place. The relationship between real-world problems and news coverage of those problems. Huge coverage of some issues, no coverage of others. Depends on proximity to home, positive or negative feedback, business model, alarm model/patrol model/or hybrid model, news values, people overreact and underreact to news. Organizational forces create pressures to standardize reporting. Agents: exercise authority on behalf of principles. Single source conveying info to large group. Our understanding of mass media must shift with the shifting climate of news.
