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Study Guide: CMN 142, Examination 1 From The Sociology Of News by Michael Schudson Intro 1. How do journalists create impressions that are taken to be real? 2. What made hate crimes and sta... lking such significant stories? 3. Note the observations of what news is in the Tuchman quote. 4.What does Schudson contend about planned events and news? 5. What does he claim about the effects of news? Ch. 1 • What is journalism? • What does Schudson claim about journalism and public inclusion? • What does the author claim about news and academic study of it? Ch. 2 • What do the left and right wings of American politics contend about news bias? • Note the examples of Iran, Tunisia, and Egypt. • What is Schudson's point about insiders and their view of news power? • People do what re: media power? • What is Schudson's view of the reporters' role in Watergate? • What does he claim about media effects in general? • What is his point about effects, news, and the people news covers? . • What is the point of Schudson's Somalia example? • What does the author claim about the history of media effects studies? • What does he claim about important influences on society? • What is the point about subverting media message/ • News is not cause but common locus? . . . what does he mean? • What is the Three Mile Island example about? • Review the section on legitimacy. • What is Schudson arguing about the importance of public visibility? Ch. 3 • Is news a mirror of reality? • Do journalists make decisions at random? Explain. • What is Schudson's view of framing? framing theory suggests that how something is presented to the audience (called “the frame”) influences the choices people make about how to process that information. They are thought to influence the perception of the news by the audience. • What is true about news and exceptions? • On pp. 31-32, what does the author claim about journalists and owners and the question of bias? • What does he claim about the scope of views represented in American media? What about it compared to media in other democracies? • Why do views at the margins get less coverage? • Review the section on journalist political orientation. • What does Schudson claim about journalists' increasing affluence? • Is professionalism a cure for slanted news, according to the author? • Review Schudson's five types of distortion. • Note the 2010 example involving Wikileaks and how the NY Times has changed. • On p. 53 read carefully the paragraph on the conventional and the dissident.. [Show More]

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