PLAP 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Larry Sabato, Marvin Kalb, Los Angeles Times
1 Nov 2016
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Discussion:
Making the News 2: Scandals Old and New
● Graber and Dunaway, ch. 6, 7.
○ Main Topics
■ Ch 6 - The Media as Policy Makers
● The ethics of melding political activism with journalism
● Manipulative journalism in perspective
● Muckraking models
○ Simple muckraking
○ Leaping impact muckraking
○ Truncated muckraking
○ The minor role of public opinion
● Beyond muckraking : journalists as political actors
○ Acting as surrogates
○ Acting as mouthpieces
○ Acting as chief framers
● Agenda building
○ Constructing political climates
○ Constructing climates for science policies
○ Nourishing social movements and interest groups
● Documentaries and docudramas
● Methods: Fair and foul
○ Confirming prejudgements
○ Entrapment
■ Ch 7 - The Struggle for Control: News from the Presidency and Congress
● The adversarial relationship
● The Media and the Executive Branch
○ Media impact
○ Direct and Mediated Transmission
○ Managing a rocky marriage
○ Presidential communications strategies
■ Winning favor
■ Shaping the news flow
■ Orchestrating coverage
■ Presidential websites
■ Presidential messaging
○ Institutional settings
■ On the president’s side
■ On the media’s side
○ Forms of contact
■ Press releases and news briefings
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Document Summary
Making the news 2: scandals old and new. Ch 6 - the media as policy makers. The ethics of melding political activism with journalism. Beyond muckraking : journalists as political actors. Ch 7 - the struggle for control: news from the presidency and congress. The impact of digital and social media. Rocky relationship bc goals differ/conflict : tug of war. The rise of the new news," a case study of two root causes of. Old media dethroned. los angeles times, august 9. The columbia report on rolling stone"s rape story is bad for. Making the news 3: the interdependence of media and political actors. Behind tv analysts, pentagon"s hidden hand. the new york. When do we publish a secret? the new york. Reporter"s case poses dilemma for justice dept. the new. Oct. 17-19: making the news 4: interdependence and war coverage. Tv: a missed opportunity. columbia journalism review 42:29-
