CMN 102 : CMN 102 Unit Two Study Guide.doc

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 102
• Professor: John Caughlin

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Note: this study guide is designed to help you focus and organize your studying efforts. Anything covered in lecture, discussion, and readings is fair game for the exam. There is a conflict of competition resolution with winners and losers events leading to resolution political coverage is portrayed as sporting events. What is the problem, proposal, performance scheme, and how does it differ from the sportsframe? people learn about candidates position better through: In what ways are journalists constrained, and how are these constraints related to the sportsframe? objectivity: not bias entertainment informativeness brevity. How do journalists establish that their news coverage is objective? appear independent (free from political pressure) show balance non-evaluative (support only facts) What are the main effects of the sportsframe? voters do not learn much about the candidates" positions and programs from the news invites public cynism strategy makes it sound like they only want the number of votes.