POLS 101 1st Edition Lecture 22 Outline of Last Lecture I. Resources of Interest Groups- Nonfinancial II. Financial Resources of Interest Groups III. Models that explain how Interest Groups and other Political Actors InteractOutline of Current Lecture I. Traditional MediaII. Media OwnershipCurrent LectureI. Traditional Media- radio, newspaper, television, magazines, cartoons. A. Newsworthy topics reported most- violence and conflict, the closer to home the event the more coverage we will get in America, more domestic coverage and less international coverage. Events that are timely or novel are covered more. “Novel New”- new, or unusual. B. Trends in News- a declining reliance on newspapers. 1880- all major cities had two or more major newspapers who competed and had differing way of reporting the news. 2006-2% of U.S. had two competing newspapers. Circulation numbers have to climb, people have to buy them. A high point in news circulation was in 1985. Today only 1/3 of people read a news paper daily. Another trend in news- young people are less interested in following news. A third trend in news is there is more “narrow casting” instead of broad casting- “Niche Journalism”- Source of media that is created with a particular target audience in mind. C. The NEW Media- Estimated that 75 million people read the news online. Nearly one half of Americans are registered on Facebook. D. Advantages of NEW MEDIA- it is convenient, it is up-to-date, and 24/7. Can still get in-depth information, some of the news sites work as “watch-dogs” of officials. A diversity of news and viewpoints that are accessible. Use these sources to mobilize political participation. E. Disadvantages of NEW MEDIA- little quality control, do not have the same type of fact checking of traditional journalism, some information will be more extreme in nature, popularity of the new media makes it more harder for traditional media to These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.make enough money to stay in existence. Part of the reason new media is a problem is because it reduces investigative reporting. This is important because one way the media performs the watch dog function is through investigative reporting. II. Media OwnershipA. primarily private, there are a few public broadcasting systems. We are only major industrial society where media is primarily private, our system is unique. There are 2000 TV stations and 1400 daily newspapers and around 13,000 radio stations. A great diversity in media ownership and type of news you will receive. B. Most of the media is concentrated in Media Conglomerates- big companies who own many sources of media. It used to be that the government insisted that the ownership of media be spread around to different and diverse companies. The 1990’s went to government regulation of one company owning 12 am and 12 fm and20 tv stations. C. 1996 TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT- opened up ownership of multiple stations a company can own. There is no limit on how many media outlets a company can own.D. Sources of information- Smaller news sources may get information from larger sources such as the Associated Press- they deliver large stories to local newspapers as a service. This is called a NEWS SERVICE, smaller outlets depend on news servicesfor information, still a great deal of similarity of stories carried in different media outlets.E. We tend to worry about news that is too similar. F. Problems of lacking diversity in news outlets- unpopular views are not covered by the
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