What do we mean by “the media”?
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 651.
News organizations and journalists of either the print (new-s, magazines), broadcast(television, radio) or internet(websites, newsfeeds, blogs) media.
5.Summarize please in detail the Roles foe the Media in a Democracy: Common carrier, watchdog, signaler, public representative.
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Roles for the media in a democracy
1)Common-Carrier
2)Watchdog
3)Signaler
4)Public Representative
The media as common carrier
The media can serve as critical links among political and governmental institutions.
Vehicles for government, political parties, ineteres groups to speak to citizens
Spin-Officials try to get the most favorable coverage they can
1) Spin can often fail
2) Spin can take Legitimate and illegitimate forms
Channels of communication among political and governmental institutions
The Incredible Shrinking Sound Bite
Sound Bite – amount of time a candidate speakes in a news story without interryption
1960's – average sound bite was 40 seconds.
Recently-average sound bite has been less than 10 seconds. Hardly enough time to utter a complete sentence.
The media as signaler
“Reporting” alert the public to important events as soon as possible, keep public informed in a timely manner
Report “the facts”
Clarify electoral choices
Present ideas about public policy to the American public
The media as public representative
Critical political linkage serving as spokesperson/advocate for the public
Twoo flavors: advocacy and acting as self-interested actor.
Why journalists may not be well suited to this role:
Lack of accountability
Representation requires a point of view –media bias?
The media as watchdog
Press should dig up facts, warn public when officials doing something wrong.
*Watergate
*Iraqi Prisoner Mistreatment Scandal
*Justice Dept. US attorney Firing Scandal
Importance of the First Amendment…
Watchdog groups
Liberal-*Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) * Media Matters for America
Conservative - /Accuracy in media *Media research Center
Is the Media Biased? What are the Types of the BIAS?
(slides 16 and 17, Media)
Chapter 9. Basic Institutions. Federal & Unitary
1. Explain in detail what the Unitary System means?
(Slides 6-10, “the-basic-structures-of-government”)
2. Explain in detail what Federal System means?
(Slides 10-15, “the-basic-structures-of-government”)
3. What are the Six Principles of American Government? Explain six of them shortly, please.
(Slide 16-22, “the-basic-structures-of-government”)
4. Explain, please, the Cases of Decentralization in Unitary Systems? (Devolution in Britain, Decentralization in France, and Autonomy in Spain) Use book information more.
(Book PS, pages 241-243 and Slide 8, “the-basic-structures-of-government”)
5. Pros and Cons of Federal Systems and Examples of them in the Book (Ex-Soviet Federalism, Ex-Yugoslavia Federalism, and Canadian Federalism)
(Book PS, pages 244-248)
6. What was Mark Twain's story of “Burden shifting”
(Book PS, pages 249)
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