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| Roles of News Media in Democracy |
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1) Watchdog over government. 2) Clarifying Electoral Choices.
3) Providing Policy Information |
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| The most important development in the collection, organization and distribution of information |
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| The most popular news source for Americans |
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| national newspapers, news magazines, TV news |
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| The associated Press and Reuters: Gather and disseminate news to other news organizations. |
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| to suggest how media corp. are so large, powerful, and interconnected that the less economically and politically powerful cannot have their views aired. |
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| The assigned location where a reporter regularly gathers news stories. Police station, city council, White house, congress, the Pentegon. |
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| Inside or secret information given to a journalist or media outlet by a government official. A common way for officials to float policy ideas, get themselves noticed and credited with good deeds, undercut rivals in other government agencies, or report real or imagined wrong doing. |
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| The attempt by those in political power to put the presentation of news about them and their policies in a favorable light. |
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| Somewhat derisive term for print broadcast, and radio commentators on the political news. Popular media/Full of opinions/talking heads |
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| Foreign news tendsto take a pro-american/patriotic stance. |
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| Many students of the media beleive that news media coverage of American politics has a lot to do with this growing feeling in the American people. |
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| Private organizations or voluntary associations that seeks to influence public policy as a way to protect or advance it's interests. They aren't political parties and they don't offer up candidates. |
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| Madison's term for groups or parites that try to advance their own interests at the expense of the public good. |
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| They argue that special interest groups do not hurt democracy and the public interests but they are an important instruments in attaining both. |
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| The political science position that American democracy is best understood in terms of the interaction, conflict and bargaining of groups. |
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| Two types of interest at work in American politics |
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| Private and public interests |
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| an interest group that seeks to protect or advance the material interests of it's members. |
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