PSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Federal Communications Commission, Concentration Of Media Ownership, News Leak
17 Dec 2019
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Psc 101-008 chapter 6 notes - the news media. Discuss the functions, structure, and operations of news media. Good information is necessary for proper popular sovereignty. How good the democracy is depends partly on how well the media fulfills its 3 essential functions: Newspapers, magazines, tv networks, cable, and local media. Gathers, analyzes, and reports politically relevant events. Wire services - organizations such as the associated. Press and reuters that gather and disseminate news to other news organizations. Media consolidation - process of a small number of companies coming to own an increasingly large share of media outlets by purchasing/integrating with other media companies. Federal communications commission (fcc) - federal agency set up to regulate media companies with eye towards ensuring competition and protecting consumers. Most media depends on the same sources for news; fewer and fewer media companies are using their own reporters.
