PLAP 3140 Final: Final Exam Guide 2

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Politics-American Politics
• Course: PLAP 3140
• Professor: Paul Freedman

Document Summary

Chapter 1: media helps integrate and homogenize our society, fastest way to disperse information, public surveillance-collective needs of the public, private surveillance- serves the needs of individuals, many stories are untold- news needs drama factor. Chapter 2: people concerned about self-serving politicians are likely to oppose government ownership and operation of the media, people like crimes and sex, public broadcasting- low interest but educational and public service television. Some want to disband it and reallocate funds. Chapter 4: dramatic expansion of content choice. Chapter 5: journalists tend to be socially more liberal, most journalists think the internet has made journalism better- excellent source of information that is easily available, gatekeepers- final control over story choices, compete for time, space, prominence. Media is major source of information: stage two- media corrects past mistakes, government may shape it for support, stage three- attempts by media to place crisis into long-range perspective. Chapter 6: 3 major media objective.