1. politics and the media
... if such a problem emerged in the symbiotic equation of power. "No politician likes to lose the sympathy of even a single newspaper or radio station. For a national leader to lose the support of a major portion of all American media can be a political disaster" (Bagdikian 91 ... between two types of media: the Agenda Setters and Mass Media. Harold Innis provides a guiltless definition of what an agenda setter is; "A complex system of writing becomes the possession of a special class and tends to support aristocracies" (Innis 4). Agenda setters are the larger media corporations that set th...
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