Mass Communication Media

Question 1

What is the mass media?

Answer 1

• It collectivity of sources

- Mean of communication that reach a board audience

Question 2

What case decisions are associated with the mass communications media?

Answer 2

• New York Times vs. Sullivan

- New York Times vs. Nixon

Question 3

What was the ruling of New York Times vs. Sullivan?

Answer 3

-The media has the right to scrutinize government and public offal’s.

Question 4

What was the ruling of New York Times vs. Nixon?

Answer 4

-The public right to know is more important than national security

Question 5

What was the intentions of the 1st amendment?

Answer 5

-Allow for political freedom of speech

Question 6

What types of speech are not protected by the 1st Amendment?

Answer 6

• obscenity
• slander
• “fighting words”

Question 7

What are considered “fighting words”

Answer 7

-Speech that might create an engagement and cause public danger

Question 8

What can the mass media be analogous to?

Answer 8

-A market place that sells different media outlets

Question 9

What is the process that the media agenda sets?

Answer 9

1. Emphasis: One side of a story rather than others
2. Editing: Time and budget allow for only partial of the story to be told
3. Selection: Decide what stories to focus on and what not to focus on

Question 10

What is prior restraint?

Answer 10

-The government cannot restrain media from publishing government information

Question 11

What is priming?

Answer 11

-Media focus attention to certain issues that has an affect on political decision.

Question 12

What is framing?

Answer 12

-The position or angle the story takes on.

Question 13

How are we affected by priming and framing/

Answer 13

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Question 14

What roles do the media play?

Answer 14

• Gatekeepers to certain issues
• media outlets have fact checkers
• ->Referees

Question 15

What is a Leak?

Answer 15

-A politician strategically planting information to media in order to engage public opinion.