Explain the concept of "agenda setting." How do we know that agenda setting has real effects on the American public? How else do the media affect public opinion and policymaking?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Explain that agenda setting is the ability of the media to influence people's opinions about what is important through their decisions about what they cover as news.
2, Discuss the controlled experiments that show how the public can be manipulated and how news media polling in itself stirs public debate about issues the public was not aware of prior to the polling.
3, Incorporate the concept of framing into the discussion of agenda setting, and discuss how it provides the context for interpretation of an issue.
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a. fluctuate unpredictably. b. go down. c. go up. d. hold steady. e. vanish.
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A) select committees. B) standing committees. C) subcommittees. D) ad hoc committees. E) conference committees.