POSC150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Internet Service Provider, Federal Communications Commission, Fairness Doctrine
9 Aug 2016
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The gatekeeper: how information is filtered on all levels of the media: agenda-setting a. Influence how voters think about an issue by emphasizing one aspect/angle of it a: republicans say they are pro-life while they really could be thought of as c. Arizona gov vetoes controversial anti-gay bill vs. arizona gov vetoes religious- freedom bill : priming a. Influence the criteria voters use to evaluate people and events and ideas by emphasizing an issue: bush"s willie horton ad primed voters to think about the election in terms of racial issues. Broadcasters have to give candidates equal time to communicate their message through their station c. ii. Anyone that broadcasts about politics must give equal time to both sides of the issue. c. ii. 2. c. ii. 3. Fcc stopped enforcing this in the 1980"s because of this problem c. iii. If your reputation is damaged on air, you have the right to: online media unregulated (until recently) rebuttal a.
