Media

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Media Politics
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Function of news in society

• To provide citizens with the information they
  need to make informed decisions about their lives

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• Provide information that allows citizens to
  engage in fully informed self-governance

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Video

• Illusions of News
• By Bill Moyers

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TV and Politics

• Americans get 80 of their political information
  from television
• Why might this be problem?
• A great deal of this info comes from political
  commercials

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Lawrence Grossman

• Broadcasters as public trustees of the public
  airwaves
• Shrinking political coverage on network news
• Network "profit center" vs "loss leader"
• Diminished public service role
• What is Grossman's proposal?