POLI 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship, Cognitive Dissonance, Motivated Reasoning
22 May 2018
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Impact of media
Video: media is pretty good about telling people what to think about. Not so good about telling people
how to think.
Murdok: etios that e ere’t ale to change opinions about the war. Supported the agenda but
not really war. Media tried to spin it to be positive but public still not impacted a ton.
Problem with the media: if only source of info is media, who decides what is newsworthy?
-bipartisanship less likely to be newsworthy
Media driven by elites in some instances (report what white house officials say)
But media is trying to increase ratings, so they want people to watch. Try to focus on things they believe
people want to hear.
Do we blindly follow the media?
-our ids ot hage, ut e follo hateer the edia reports o. We do’t thik aout
Afghaista or “yria o, ut e are still ioled ith the. But sie edia does’t report o that
ayore, e do’t thik aout it.
Trust in the news media:
-dems more trusting in national news organizations and local news.
-gop ot trustig: fake es. Trup tellig people to ot eliee it.
Nobody trusts social media. Why do we turn to them? Easy.
% of US adults who say media criticism of politial leaders keeps the fro doig thigs they should’t
-in 2016, dems and reps about the same, 74%, 77%
-in 2017, dems 89% and rep: 42%
GOP more likely to think that news organiationst end to favor one size
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