1. How do you obtain your daily news?
Warm Up Activity
How do you obtain your daily news?
List five general media sources that provide news.
List as many specific examples of media sources as you can.

2. General Media Sources
Newspapers
Television
Magazines
Internet
Radio

3. Specific Media Sources
Newspapers- USA Today, New York Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune
Television- Local, Network, Cable
Magazines- Time, US News and World Report, Newsweek
Radio- Hannity, Limbaugh, radio stations
Internet- Google any Newspapers website

4. Mass Media and New Media
Mass Media- Means of communication that are technologically capable of reaching most people and economically affordable to most
News Media- Cable and satellite TV, fax, , and the Internet – the media that have grown out of the technological advances of the past few decades.
CNN Effect- it is the ability of TV to raise a national and/or foreign tragedy to prominence by broadcasting vivid pictures.

5. Evaluate Your News Sources
Liberal Media vs. Conservative Media
Selective Perception- One’s tendency to discount information that is inconsistent with one’s prior predisposition in favor of information consistent with what one already believes.
Selection Principle- The news stories media sources chose to cover because of certain characteristics that other news stories are lacking; negative news.
Spin- The positive or negative slant that reporters or anchors put on their reports.

6. 3 Major Media Effects on the National Political Arena
Agenda Setting/Public Agenda
Priming
Framing

7. Agenda Setting/Public Agenda
It is when the media affects the issues and problems people think about; it is societal problems that the media has exposed and both the government and the public agree need attention.
Examples: Iraq War, Political Campaigns, Social Security, Unemployment Rate, Minimum Wage
Where can agenda setting be found?

8. Priming
Is when the media alters the standards people use to evaluate political figures or the severity of a problem.
Examples:
1. George H. W. Bush - Gulf War vs. national economic performance
2. George W. Bush – Performance after 9/11 vs. Iraq War

9. Framing
Is when the media provokes people to think about an issue from one standpoint rather than from others.
Example: Prior to Iraq War the collective view of the media/public was pro war