AP gov. Chapter 7

During the 2016 presidential election, were most of the media stories positive or negative?

Most of the media stories were negative

what % of the news coverage of the 2016 election was actually about policy issue?

10% of the news was actually about policy issues

Why does the media tend to focus on more negative stories?

It's a constant search for what will attract the biggest audience.

Whats the purpose of a media event?

Events that are purposely staged for the media, and are significant just because the media is there.

whats the reason ABC’s Sam Donaldson give for this cozy relationship between politicians and the press, also what has changed this?

Many reporters see themselves as an extension of the government, accepting, with very little skepticism, what government officials told them. The thing that changed was the events of the Vietnam war and the Watergate scandal.

What does the FCC stand for, and what is it’s role?

Federal communications commission, it regulates interstate and international communications.

3 ways the FCC has regulated the media

1. instituted rules to limit the number of stations owned or controlled by one compact, to prevent near monopolies from control over a broadcast market

2. conducts periodic examinations of the goals and performance of stations as part of its licensing authority

3. issued a number of fair treatment rules concerning access to the airwaves for political candidates and office holders, the equal time rule stipulates that is a station sells advertising time to one candidate, it must be willing to self equal time to other candidates for the same office.

what is net neutrality?

Required all Internet service providers to provide equal access to broadband for all websites to their customers.

What was the resulting argument about net neutrality?

The resulting political argument about it was that republicans argued it represented unnecessary government regulation of the internet.

what is narrow-casting?

internet that is focused on a particular interest and aimed at a particular audience.

How does the term narrow-casting impact how Americans get political information?

what are the benefits and challenges of social media with respect to political news and reporting.

benefits: 1. bring activists together, 2. helps political mobilization

challenges: 1. false/misleading information, 2. social media amplifies context that is polarizing, 3.social media users only see political stories that fit with their political interests