POLS 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nationstates, Fairness Doctrine, Npr

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3410
• Professor: Ajay Sharma

Document Summary

02/26/2018 lecture 9: impact of the media and technology on government. Media and american democracy: providing information media coverage informs the public, watching political leaders the media serves a public watchdog function, shaping the political agenda editors and reporters have enormous influence on what. Cnn, showed live video of american rockets screaming into baghdad, the capital of iraq, at the start of the gulf war: cnn introduced a new model it reported news all day long. Is the media biased: a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)s(cid:859) per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) of (cid:373)edia (cid:271)ias nearly half think the media is too liberal, reporters are democrats, about 85% of news reporters call themselves liberal/moderate, compared to 60% of. How governments shape the media: the first amendment protects print media from regulation. In the us, the supreme court, historically, has protected a free press: under a free market scenario, the media is constrained by the mores of the community in which it operates, regulating broadcasters.