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| Who are the two individuals that broke the Watergate story? |
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| Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein |
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| In what supreme court case did a man sue a paper for not letting him respond to negative remarks made against him in FL? |
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Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo
- Pat Tornillo was Executive Director of the Classroom Teachers Association and a candidate for the Florida House of Representatives in Dade County, Florida. The Miami Herald published two editorials criticizing Tornillo and his candidacy. He demanded that the Herald publish his responses to the editorials. When the Herald refused, Tornillo sued in Dade County Circuit Court under Florida Statute Section 104.38, which granted political candidates criticized by any newspaper the right to have their responses to the criticisms published. The Herald challenged the statute as a violation of the free press clause of the First Amendment. The Circuit Court ruled that the statute was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of Florida reversed this decision. |
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| Federal Communications Commission |
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| There is five criteria that newscasters use when deciding on news stories. What are four of those criteria? |
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1. Familiarity
2. Proximity
3. Timely
4. Violence |
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- When you read something and it influences how you view politics and leaders.
- Media showing this thing a lot effects opinions of leaders |
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| In experiments, how do you control for causality? |
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- Expose different groups to different stimuli and test opinions
- have a steady control group and only manipulate variables that will show that it is for sure the experiment that did
- want to make sure what you're testing is the cause of the change |
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| In the study involving race and the media that we read in class, what did the results show? |
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- Even though they didn't show a criminal people depicted the made up person as a minority
- news focuses on violent crimes more
-people that did not see a crime said they did |
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| What is the major function of the FCC? |
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- A bipartisan body appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
- All about broadcasting
-Checks media content
- Tends to be reactive instead of proactive |
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| Who appoints members to the FCC? |
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| Does the FCC tend to be reactive or proactive? |
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| Political significance of the case Miami Hearld v. Tornillo |
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- You can't sue the paper
- Reaffirmed the constitutional principle of freedom of the press |
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| What is the Equal Time Provision? |
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- If you allow one candidate to speak you have to allow the other
- If you sell one candidate air time, you have to sell or at least offer time to the other |
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| What is the Right to Fair Treatment (Fairness Doctrine)? |
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If you're broadcasting and take one side you have to talk about the other side too
- abolished by the FCC in 1987 because of suppressing controversy |
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| What is the Right to Rebuttal? |
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| The right to go on air and speak up if somebody talks about you |
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- the first negative ad that effected voters
-LBJ campaign for 1964
- Little girl picking flowers then explosion
- "We must love each other or die" |
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| When the media emphasizes certain parts of a story |
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| In Wag the Dog, to distract the public from a scandal, what do the lead characters decide to do? |
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| What is the burglar alarm model of news? |
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| People only pay attention when its breaking news, an alert |
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| How does agenda setting differ from agenda building? |
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Agenda setting: media reports and public puts it as a #1 importance
Agenda Building: making something noticeable to the public, putting a spotlight on something you think does not have enough coverage
- AB can lead to AS |
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| The media reports and the public puts it at #1 importance |
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| Uses and gratifications theory |
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| We pay attention to the stuff we find useful and intellectually or emotionally gratifying and ignore all the rest |
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| What tends to happen to Democrats and Republicans as they gain more information? |
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- Become more partisan
-Republicans polarize more |
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- Government can't male the paper report stuff
- Prior restraint |
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| Political significance of New York Times v Sullivan |
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- Slander and Libel
- Only way can sue a paper is if they're causing provable harm |
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| - An order by the court or government that tells papers that they can't report on certain stuff |
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- You choose what you want to listen to
- Individuals’ tendency to favor information which reinforces their pre-existing views while avoiding contradictory information |
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| How would you test Agenda Setting? |
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| Show a control group a story then ask them what's the most important issue facing America today and see if the story effected their answer |
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