Your book indicates that media managers favor stories that have dramatic visuals to accompany them over stories that do not have such visuals or cannot be visualized

Think of a news story you have recently seen or read, and examine how its use of visuals contributes to the story being told. Do the visuals help or hinder the audience's understanding of the story? How so?

What will be an ideal response?


An ideal response will:
1, Explain why dramatic visuals represent the larger trend of the massive invasion of entertainment values into political reporting.
2, Explain how the visuals from the story either helped or hindered the audience in understanding the story, e.g., oversimplification, clarification, and distraction.

Political Science

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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