POL 165 Study Guide - Final Guide: Al Jazeera, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Loaded Language
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Answers in pink to keep them straight from the study guide content. It is unclear what journalists" jobs are anymore. But they are the iron core of essentially all the news we consume. Newspapers are the only news outlets with the funds to do such widespread reporting. Advertisers are putting more $ in new media. Major tv news outlets usually don"t have ij departments in the first place: the relationship between real-world problems and news coverage of those problems. Huge coverage of some issues, no coverage of others. Depends on proximity to home, positive or negative feedback, business model, alarm model/patrol model/or hybrid model, news values, people overreact and underreact to news: incentives of journalists and news outlets. Their specific beat: news hole, beat reporting, etc. Organizational forces create pressures to standardize reporting. Bennet and serrin: watchdog press gets lost in the noise ; need partnerships to be successful: gatekeeping. Agents: exercise authority on behalf of principles.
