Political Science 2143A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Civic Engagement, Political Communication, New Media
11 Feb 2021
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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers. Normative functions of media in a liberal democracy: most important, to act as a watchdog against the state; To represent the people in the sense of adequately reflecting the spectrum of public opinion and political competition. Normative: the way things ought to be (ex. what media should be doing) Partisan bias: a cause is explicitly and deliberately promoted. A media outlet presents a certain point of view. British newspapers like the times of london (conservative) or the guardian (labour) Fox news openly, clearly presenting a republican perspective. Propaganda bias: story reported with the deliberate intention of making a case without explicitly stating so. Using certain words and phrases to present a perspective without openly admitting it. Unwitting bias: editorial decisions: x matters more than y.
