Fox News and American Politics: How One Channel Shapes by Dan Cassino

By Dan Cassino

In contemporary years, students have argued that the power of individuals to decide on which channel they need to observe signifies that tv information is simply preaching to the choir, and doesn’t switch any minds. notwithstanding, this publication indicates that the media nonetheless has a massive direct impression on American society and politics.



While earlier study has emphasised the oblique results of media content material on attitudes – via priming or framing, for example – Dan Cassino argues that prior information on either the general public opinion and the media part wasn’t exact sufficient to discover it. utilizing a mixture of unique nationwide surveys, huge scale content material research of stories assurance besides information units as disparate as FBI gun heritage assessments and crusade contribution files, Cassino discusses why it’s very important to regard diversified media resources individually, estimating degrees of ideological bias for tv media resources in addition to the variations within the issues that many of the media resources hide. Taking this into consideration proves that publicity to a few media resources can serve to truly make american citizens much less familiar with present affairs, and likely to purchase into conspiracy theories.



Even in an period of declining viewership, the media – specially Fox information – are shaping our society and our politics. This ebook files how this is often taking place, and exhibits the results for americans. the standard of journalism is greater than a tutorial query: while assurance makes a speciality of questionable subject matters, or political bias, there are consequences.

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