Geographic Patterns

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Geographic Patterns

• Domestic
• Pacific Coast/Northeast overrepresented in news
• Big Cities/New York/California in entertainment
• International
• Western Europe/Soviet Union covered more
• Latin America/South Asia/Eastern Europe less

2
Demographic Patterns

• Managerial/Professional emphasized
• Men over Women
• Whites over Ethnic
• Upper middle class over working class

3
Power/Culture Map

• New York
• Financial Power
• Washington, D.C.
• Political Power
• Los Angeles
• Cultural Promotion

4
News Bias

• Partisanship (open intentional)
• e.g. editorials, opinion columns
• Propaganda (hidden intentional)
• e.g. disinformation from government
• Unwitting Bias (open unintentional)
• e.g. gatekeeping
• Ideology (hidden unintentional)
• e.g. worldview

5
Newsworthiness

• Timeliness (happened recently)
• Consequence (affects many people)
• Prominence (well-known people)
• Proximity (near to us physically/emotionally)
• Interest (entertaining, unusual)

6
Off Course, Michael Massing

• To what extent to you think popular entertainment
  has an effect on our culture?
• Should media outlets try to report on these
  effects?
• Why, if so many people are offended by popular
  culture, does it generate such high ratings and
  income?

7
Were not losing the culture wars anymore

• Was the media only the liberal media 15 years
  ago?
• If so, can conservatives now say that they no
  longer have voice?
• Is South Park a conservative show?

8
Videos

• Are comedians, bloggers, and people who write for
  websites journalists?
• Who should have access to politicians, the White
  House, etc?
• Are new media voices changing the old media
  for the better? Worse?