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Title: Media and Politics


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Media and Politics
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  • Cantrils (1940) study, The Invasion from Mars A
    Study in the Psychology of Panic
  • On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and a group of
    actors, in a New York studio of Colombia
    Broadcasting System, (broadcast an adaptation of
    H. G. Wellss War of the Worlds), broadcast were
    presented as a series of simulated news bulletins

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  • Six million Americans tuned in to this
    dramatization of a science fiction novel about a
    Martian invasion (text included in Cantril,
    1940). Over 1 million of them responded with
    severe fright or panic.
  • radio had triggered a mass effect, the broadcast
    caused fear, fear caused panic, and panic led to
    verifiable reactions

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  • It is estimated that of the 6 million people who
    heard the broadcast, 1.7 million thought it was
    the news, not a play, while a further 1.2 million
    were frightened. A few even bought train tickets
    or drove off in the opposite direction to New
    York, the supposed epicentre of the alien
    invasion (http//www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/invasio
    n-from-mars-anatomy-of-panic.php)

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  • Does public opinion influence and shape a
    governments policies?
  • OR
  • Does the government influences and shape the form
    of public opinion on politics?

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  • Two assumptions
  • 1-elites manipulates public opinion for their
    interest (top-down approach, realist - driven by
    state interest)
  • OR
  • 2-leaders follow masses (bottom-up approach)

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  • Democratic-pluralist model no one set of
    interests group dominate,
  • media and public is independent from political
    influence/citizens capable to consume information
    from media in order to form their own independent
    opinion

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  • Media is used to control public opinion and
    instrument for national leadership especially in
    nondemocratic states
  • CNN effect (US based Cable News Network)
    independent news media make pressure policy
    makers to pursue a particular course of action
    during crisis raised by journalists

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  • CNN by focusing on certain conflicts and problems
    make pressure on politicians to respond some
    foreign problems and not others so it is harmful
    for reasoned policy making!!

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  • Media has powerful role in agenda setting/how to
    frame the story (framing is the act of selecting
    some events and promote particular interpretation
    to through memorable and emotionally charged
    issues to addresses political culture of
    public/addresses cognition of individuals)
  • Government officials/elites control framing

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  • Framing highly politicized and biased
    representation of any issue
  • Agenda setting/framing shaping public opinion
  • Government control its own response to a foreign
    event/framing and explaining the event, if media
    define event government might lose control of
    event

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  • Joint agenda setting between government and
    media/but media is driven by policy makers rather
    than vice-versa
  • However in some cases media take control and
    mobilize public against government, for instance
    Russian media and interests group forced Russian
    government to end war in Chechnya!

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  • Radio des Mille Collines (RTLM),
  • in Rwanda the government used media, especially
    radio, as a tool in the genocide.
  • radio is a far more efficient means of reaching
    large numbers of people, and was much more
    significant as a catalyst

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  • The radio, long established as the voice of
    government, defined the enemy as the Tutsis, and
    inspired an obligation by Hutus to protect
    themselves and their families.

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  • Alfred Kiruhura, 29, an illiterate farmer from
    eastern Rwanda, await trial for genocide. He
    states
  • I did not believe the Tutsis were coming to kill
    us, but when the government radio continued to
    broadcast that they were coming to take our land,
    were coming to kill the Hutuswhen this was
    repeated over and overI began to feel some kind
    of fear

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  • Why does a dog wag its tail?
  • Because a dog is smarter than its tail.
  • If the tail was smarter, the tail would wag the
    dog.

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  • Washington spin doctor or Mr. Fix It (Robert De
    Niro) distracts the electorate from a
    presidential sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood
    producer (Dustin Hoffman) to create a fake war.
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