POSC150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Fetus, Netflix
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The media is the gatekeepers: define: they decide which stories get covered and how. They are a source of information about decisions being made. Enormous potential to shape opinion: how. Influence what voters think are the most important issues. These are the things that are going to sell. Influences how voters think by emphasizing a certain angle of it. Ex: abortion: either emphasizing life of the fetus or about women"s right to choose. Ex: arizona: governor vetoes anti-gay bill vs. vetoes religious freedom bill . Influences the criteria voters use to evaluate people and events by emphasizing an issue. Ex: favor of president by emphasizing good or bad things done; like emphasizing economy and use people"s feelings of economy to influence feelings of the president. But in some circumstance they want interfere: print media. Free from almost all due to the first amendment. Freedom of the press : refers exactly to print, broadcast media.
