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POLI 2051 Exam 3 Questions Complete Solutions Current Update Mass Media/News Media - Technology that allows individuals to communicate efficiently with a large group and over distances Where did students get their news according to the student survey - Democrats: Newspapers (0) internet (89) ...

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POLI 2051 Exam 3 Questions
Complete Solutions Current Update

Mass Media/News Media - ✔✔Technology that allows individuals to communicate efficiently with a

large group and over distances


Where did students get their news according to the student survey - ✔✔Democrats:


Newspapers (0)


internet (89)


Television(8)




Republicans:


Newspapers (2)


Internet (69)


Television (23)




Independents:


Newspapers (0)


Internet (76)


Television (19)



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In political science we are primarily concerned with ___ because it informs us as citizens - ✔✔Information

media


Controlled media - ✔✔candidates control the content of the message (i.e. campaign commercials or

rallies)


Types of Advertisements (controlled media) - ✔✔Positive (self praise)


negative (attacks/criticism of opponent)


Defenses - ✔✔"that's not true" - not effective


attacking back on same issue is most common and effective


political ads started with - ✔✔-Eisenhower in 1952


- tended to be short and solf candidates like products


Negative ads started with - ✔✔Daisy girl ad


Why do candidates attack even though we are generally against negativity - ✔✔-out of fear (there's more

attacks in a close race)


-because they work (tend to be more remembered)


what do you do if you're attacked? - ✔✔counterattack on the same issue (ex. red phone ad from 2008)


Bipartisan campaign reform act of 2002 __ - ✔✔-tried to limit negative attack advertisements but didn't

work


- other groups stepped up the efforts to provide these attack ads


Uncontrolled media - ✔✔candidates have less control over the content


-debates




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-news coverage


Debates first occurred - ✔✔in presidential general election in 1960 with Nixon V. Kennedy


-next ones didn't occur until 1976 and since then we've had at least one every election


Characteristics of media coverage of politics - ✔✔-horse-race coverage (a sporting event)


-issue-less (issue covered and then moved on from)


-pack journalism (everyone tends to cover the same thing)


-style over substance (not about what you say but HOW you say it that's remembered)


-anything is newsworthy(anything goes, nothing private)


-interpretative(they tell you how to think about it..give a spin on their story)


-Negative


Federal Regulatory Agencies - ✔✔-FCC (federal communications commission) regulated broadcasting


-2nd restriction was the fairness doctrine on broadcasters (must afford reasonable opportunity for the

discussion of conflicting views of public importance)


Framing - ✔✔The process by which journalists select particular aspects of situations and and craft their

stories around them


Agenda Setting - ✔✔The media's ability to influence what is on people's minds. (Covering the same

events, problems, issues and leaders..the media places them on the public agenda)


Watchdog function - ✔✔The press stands ready to expose officials who violate accepted legal, ethical, or

performance standards




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