POL SCI 40 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Muckraker, Oligopoly, Fairness Doctrine
24 Dec 2016
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Textbook: chapter 14 the news media (pages 567 606) Style of journalism born of intense competition and characterized by screaming headlines and sensational stories. Reference to the yellow ink that comic strips were printed. Publishers of established successful newspapers in one city often tried to repeat their success elsewhere. Creates the emergence of the great modern newspaper chain. Newspaper freedom from party control enabled them to influence public opinion and, in turn, national politics. They held monopoly over mass communications in growing urban markets: national political news was reported in their pages or not at all. Journalistic investigation and exposure of scandals, corruption, and injustices. Pressured and propaganda calling for war against spain: congress issued an official declaration of war shortly after. Substitutes in radio, then tv, and now internet for news (2) emergence of radio and then to tv. Tv and its news coverage astonishing growth as it became a regular home appliance.
