GOV 310L Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Hurricane Harvey, Media Bias, Msnbc
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Mass media and the press: define the media, press, and different media mediums, illustrate trends in media and press, examine the issue of media bias, analyze the effects of media, discuss the media as principals and agents. Media: media intended for public audiences public consume, e. g. Press: people and organizations who produce media working within the media. Free press vital to democracy as oppose to controlled press: citizens cannot monitor government if media is censored by government corruption. Providing information: what is happening in the world. Evaluating and interpreting events: placing events in context. Solving collective dilemmas: press can help prioritize problems it focuses on certain issues e. g. hurricane harvey. Penny papers: around 1800, extremely bias, sensationalist. Early days of country saw highly partisan press: parties controlled certain press operations. Today many kinds of media coexist: professionalized, objective reporting. Media is now available directly to the public new platforms as twitter.
