CAS HI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Fairness Doctrine, Mass Media
5 May 2019
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Trends in mass media in the 1990s and 2000s - created an environment that focused more on scandal than personal indiscretions, clinton"s presidency is the real reason for this. Institutions of mass media contained a liberal bias, advanced by nixon and others is entrenched as a way of thinking. In addition there was a growth of partisan reporting. a. ) New challenges to the ideal of objectivity - changes in federal policy as a response to the polarized media climate. i. ) ii. ) Abandoning the fairness doctrine (1987) - required radio and television to provide contrasting views, abandoned. Partisanship in the news: fox news (1996) - still presenting itself as objective or fair, symbols the resurgence of partisan journalism that we date all the way back to the muckrakers, ted turner will describe fox. News as a propaganda voice of the bush administration b. ) Amount of actual news content will drop from.
