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Media Society and Culture

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News media in a democratic society
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* Report events objectively as they occur, to allow citizens to make informed political choices
* Control governmental abuses of power, through investigative journalism
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* But, it is more like a Propaganda System
* However, this control is remains invisible when the media are private and formal censorship is
absent, portraying themselves as the voice of public
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News Filters
Financial ownership
Funding through advertising
Reliance on PR
“Flak”
“Anti-communism”

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News Filters
* corporate ownership of the media (Own interests)
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* Financial reliance on advertising (Source of money, Business friendly)
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* Reliance on PR information provided by government and business (Limited source of news.
Over-reliance on power eilites)
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* “Flak” as a means of disciplining the media (Law suits, petitions, complaints from interest
groups/powers/businesses)
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* “anticommunism” (Anti-terrorism) as a control mechanism  (Obedient audience. Controlled by fear)
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What’s happening?
* What is going on in Fukushima? Guantanamo? North Korea? etc
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* Information on the Occupy Movement at the beginning of the movement?
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Rich Media Poor Democracy
* Robert McChesney
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* Most of the news and entertainment available today comes from just a few massive entertainment
corporations so large they function as virtual monopolies or oligopolies
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* A handful of media giants compete with one another for market share, but they all know their
mutual survival is assured.
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Media in Politics
* Transmit political information from political actors to the public
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* Gatekeeping
* Media makes decisions about what is news, and for how long
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* Watchdog function
* Informal check in our political system
* Media allows the public to keep tabs on behavior of elected officials
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* Expand scope of an issue
* More media attention leads to higher levels of public knowledge about issue
* This leads to more pressure on politicians
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Media Bias. Ideology?
* Ideologically Biased Media – Progressive, Liberal, Conservative
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* Corporate Bias: Corporations’ desire to maintain business interests
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Obsessive Society
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9OHBHtho8