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media. Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. Jim Morrison. The medium IS the message. Liberal, conservative they ALL play the game Those Fox folks are so darn clever. Who makes the news?.

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  1. media Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. Jim Morrison

  2. The medium IS the message • Liberal, conservative they ALL play the game • Those Fox folks are so darn clever

  3. Who makes the news? • Journalists only want to inform? Or is it all about the bank account? What exactly is their agenda? The people who "report" it

  4. Power of the media • Transformed America- no longer boring and removed • Vietnam a major turning point- Cronkite went to Nam to report on the war. He was negative. LBJ said to an aide: “ We’ve lost the war now that we’ve lost Cronkite” • Power in freedom- 1st amendment. • Freedom is rare

  5. Who is watching the watchers?

  6. Regulation • Broadcast TV most restricted- public airwaves • Regulation of content- • Equal time rule- time given one candidate must be provided to others • Fairness Doctrine ( 1949-1985)- had to be fair in coverage- FCC abolished it in 1985 based on various explosion of media that created diversity among viewpoints. • 1st amendment protects many viewpoints and ideas

  7. The Court and the press • Near v. Minnesota (1931) A state law allowing prior restraint was unconstitutional. This decision also extended protection of press freedom to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. • New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) The First Amendment protected all statements about public officials unless the speaker lied with the intent to defame.

  8. New York Times v. United States (1971) A claimed threat to national security was not justification for prior restraint on publication of classified documents (the Pentagon Papers) about the Vietnam War • Hustler v. Falwell (1988) The First Amendment prohibits public figures from recovering damages for intentional infliction of emotional harm unless the publication contained a false statement made with actual malice. • Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988) Public school officials can censor school-sponsored newspapers, because the newspapers are part of the school curriculum rather than a forum for public expression.

  9. More on media power • Media is a two way street- media uses politicians and politicians use the media • Newspapers and magazines. • Newspapers are primarily local except NY Times. Wall St Journal, Wash Post • Mags are more national- Time, Newsweek

  10. And even more on power • National more powerful- NY Times, Newsweek etc. • Leaders pay attention to what they write • Leaders give them more access • Reporters are more prestigious

  11. New media influences • Newspapers in serious decline- once major source • TV networks took over but also in decline • Non broadcast on the rise- Fox, MSNBC, DailyShow (“In a 2004 study conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers discovered that regular viewers of The Daily Show actually knew more about elections than did people who watched news channels and read newspapers.”) Young people use non traditional methods

  12. Cable vs broadcast( network and local)

  13. Al Gore is a genius!

  14. New media=ignorance? • New media is great for immediate relevance but what’s lost when everything we do is so quick, edited and disposable?

  15. Is Twitter really a news source?

  16. Internet competition

  17. TV still rules…..barely • News is 24/7 • 1950’s it was 15 minutes a day • Role as gatekeeper, scorekeeper, watchdog has changed for better or worse

  18. Media roles • Gatekeeper- What becomes an issue? Experiment- One group shown news on nuclear weapons the other group watches stories on unemployment Results:

  19. Scorekeeper- Who is winning? Iowa, NH etc. • Sometimes the media decides the winner is the loser and the loser is the winner "We have a top tier now“ But it is hard to change opinions:Poll- Who won the debate?

  20. Watchdog- Keep an eye on those dogs in DC • Watergate/Iran-Contra/Monica/WMD/Soylndra??

  21. Who’s paying attention anyway?

  22. So what do those paying attention actually see? • Ideological propoganda- Corresponds with the rise of cable TV -1980 CNN- Follows Fairness Doctrine despite cable being exempt- Today anything goes -1987- FCC rescinds Fairness doctrine- Radio ( Rush Limbaugh) then TV go ideological. Fox now #1 by a large margin -Real detail on candidates is lost- Soundbites? Hah.

  23. The incredible shrinking soundbite

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