PLAP 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transmedia Storytelling, Civic Journalism, Mignon Clyburn
27 Sep 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Concern about what gets in, but also what gets out. Nbc example - missing story about ge. Abc smuggling advertisements for disney products under the guise of news stories. L street tavern - good will hunting. Disney got caught -- stopped doing it. But this is something that is easy to be vigilant about -- less obvious. 1996 telecom act coverage (gilens and hertzman 2000) Newspapers owned by corporations with heavy television interests gave more favorable coverage to provisions of act that benefit television owners; Negative impact: telecom bill would (compare with numbers below) Newspapers owned by corporations without television interests gave more negative coverage. Conducted content analysis on a systematic sample of papers; Demonstrate patterns but do not claim that any group of papers is biased in the sense of being wrong. 5 members: at least two from each party. Appointed by president and confirmed by senate for 5 year terms.
