POL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Federal Communications Commission, Soft Media, Investigative Journalism
27 Nov 2016
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Chapter 6- lecture notes part 2 (media: the mass media and what they do. The term the mass media" represents all sources of information (newspapers, television, radio, blogs, other online sources, and social media) For a democracy to be healthy, they need to make good choices in the political word, and they need to be informed. To investigate (investigative journalism is very important in fulfilling the watchdog role, woodward and. In 1930s the only way to get news was through the daily newspaper. This leaves the media only being able to affect only a handful of citizens. This is known as selective exposure, meaning that partisans are just going to watch)h their partisan news, and expose themselves to what they want to see. Campbell (et al) went further, saying that partisans engage in selective perception meaning that they read the same information and interpret it differently.
