MC 3505 : FINAL EXAM SOURCES
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Patterson, doing well and doing good an informed citizenry is the best citizenry hard news should be the normative standard, because soft news doesn"t appropriately inform the citizenry. Zaller, a new standard of news quality: burglar alarms founders didn"t really want an informed citizenry anyway rely on burglar alarm standard as long as you know what"s immediately important, you"ll be fine: active choice in media marketplace. Prior, news media v. entertainment: how increasing media choice. Widens gap in political knowledge and turnout content preferences are usually pretty good predictors of political knowledge and turnout the knowledge gap is widening because choice is ubiquitous. Arceneaux and johnson, channel surfing: does choice reduce. Republicans choose fox; democrats divide between cnn and npr. Baym, political media as discursive modes different media sources interview ron paul different modes are evidence of increasing fragmentation and a need for media sources to differentiate themselves from the competition old media perspective, idealizes newspapers as normative standard.
