Media
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| Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House. Most top reporters work a particular location, thereby becoming specialists in what goes on there. | ||
| Television, radio, and the Internet. | ||
| Newspapers published by massive media conglomerates that account for over four-fifths of the nation's daily newspaper circulation. Often these control broadcast media as well. | ||
| A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology. | ||
| The use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, at times putting reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders. | ||
| Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication. | ||
| Events purposely staged for the media that nonetheless look spontaneous. In keeping with politics as theater, media events can be staged by individuals, groups, and government officials, especially presidents. | ||
| Media programming on cable TV or the Internet that is focused on one topic and aimed at a particular audience. Examples include MTV, ESPN, and C-SPAN. | ||
| The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time. | ||
| People who invest their political "capital" in an issue. According to John Kindon, these people "could be in or out of government, in elected or appointed positions, in interest groups or research organizations." | ||
| Meetings of public officials with reporters. | ||
| Newspapers and magazines. | ||
| Short video clips of approximately 10 seconds. Typically, they are all that is shown from a politician's speech on the nightly television news. | ||
| A shot of a person's face talking directly to the camera. Because this is visually unappealing, the major commercial networks rarely show a politician talking one-on-one for very long. | ||
| An intentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction. |
