POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hypodermic Needle, Fox News, Msnbc
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Orson wells made a fake radio news broadcast based on movie war of the worlds: caused a panic to people, orson had to make an apology. Is percieved and how we precieve this info that people try to implant in. 2 core findings that people illustrate that people are active interpreters: selective exposure people are selective with the media content that they expose themselves to is the selective motivated selection of pro attitudinal messages. And the elective avoidance of counter-attitudinal messages. News formats also focus on entertainment rather than being informative because certain audiences are more drawn to that it is important because it shows that we actively seek out stuff that we want. You need to be a partisan in order for this to work (pick a side) Pro isralis thought news articles were pro palistinian and palistinians throught vise versa so their pre-existing political views effected their biases towards news articles.
