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Chapter 10
Public Opinion and the News Media
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
11/24/2008

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Students (political ideology)
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becoming more conservative
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self selection
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Where people can opt in or out of a mail in poll
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Quota Sampling
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Where certain people are stopped at a shopping mall and others are not
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Cspan
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provides full coverage of congressional proceedings
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Calvin Coolridge
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Used radio FIRST
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Debates
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Are the one exception to the equal time rule
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Content Regulation
Definition
Government attempts to control the substence of the mass media
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First among equals
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The president is considered the first among equals in media coverage
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The press
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Influences people very little of the time
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Framing
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The media organization defines an issue and effects political opinion
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Agenda Setting
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News tells people what to think, without telling them what to think
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Political Socialization
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how people gain their political beliefs
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Political Socialization
Definition
how people gain their political beliefs
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Silent Majority
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Richard Nixon
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Traditional Gender Gap Lessened
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Kosovo
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Difficulty in Measuring Intensity
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May not have a lot of involvemet in a particular issue
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Foreign Policity
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Least likely to have strong opinions
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Political Capital
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Presidents inability to get programs approved
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50% of young people
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Didn't know that Russia was an Ally during WWII
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Mass Media
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ANY FORM OF MEDIA- tv, internet, radio, movies...
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% of people that get their news from internet in 2005
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25%
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Embedded Journalism
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Problem because they got in the way of troop operations
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Press Briefing
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govt talks with press
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Created position of press secretary
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Herbert Hoover
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John Marshall
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the most important justice ever
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Legislative court
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established courts such as the millitary courts
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