Chapter 6

Print media, broadcast media, (radio, TV, movies, and music), conglomerates, and the internet.

Email lists, twitter lists, etc.

Mixing journalism with theatre.

Info to leaders; leaders to followers.

List of subjects or problems to which government officials as well as individuals outside the government are paying serious attention to at any given time.

Must make equal time available to competing candidates.

Must make facilities available for the expression of other responsible points of view.

Election coverge focused on who's ahead, not on issues.

News media reporting on news that interests people rather than reporting news that is important.

Leaders who follow news in specific policy areas.

TV is to blame for the low level of citizen knowledge about public affairs.

(FCC) Independent federal agency to regulate interstate and international communications by mass media.

Is it important enough to be covered?

Media execs, editors, and prominent reporters who direct the flow of news.

A situation that is set up to be "newsworthy".