selection of facts (again‚ not uncommon). Potential issues to explore (feel free to address any topics not mentioned below) U.S.: RINOs vs the Tea Party‚ Immigration‚ Obamacare‚ ‘War on Women’‚ ‘War on Christmas’‚ Drones‚ NSA surveillance‚ Climate Change‚ Paul vs Christie‚ Occupy Wall Street‚ Birtherism‚ etc. Global: Egypt‚ Snowden‚ Syria‚ Russian homophobia‚ the M23‚ Zimbabwe election‚ etc. R.S.A.: Judicial transformation‚ Spytapes‚ EFF‚ Seriti Commission‚ Farlan Commission‚ Dina Pule‚ ‘Poo Wars’
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Agenda Setting Theory I. The original agenda: not what to think‚ but what to think about. A. Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw regard Watergate (American political scandal – 1970’s. It ended in President Nixon resigning from office) as a perfect example of the agenda-setting function of the mass media. B. They believe that the mass media have the ability to transfer the salience (importance) of items on their news agendas to the public agenda. II. A theory whose time had come
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Chapter 7 The Mass Media and the Political Agenda Multiple-Choice Questions 1) High-tech politics refers to A) a politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers is shaped by technology. B) a proposal for direct democracy through the use of telephone voting. C) a futuristic society in which politics is controlled by computers‚ freeing people for more honorable pursuits. D) the use of cable television to broadcast the workings of the government. E) the ability of government to
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School’s Case Study “Aid‚ Debt Relief‚ and Trade: An agenda for fighting World Poverty” outlines the steps‚ and missteps‚ that the world community has taken since World War II to address the efficacy of international assistance. The study focuses on international financial institutions (IFIs) and their ability to help poor nations break out of poverty and the possible obligations of rich‚ developed countries to assist the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs). Additionally‚ the study seeks to
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Winfred Graddick February 13‚ 2011 Com-126 Communication and the Media Professor Don Olsen Agenda-Setting of Mass Media When we look at the magnitude and the contributions the media has made to political campaigns‚ especially the recent presidential campaign we can see the agenda-setting function at work. We learn through the media the intent of the candidates while addressing the important issues of the campaign. The coverage through
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Agenda-Setting Analysis This part of the analysis deals with how party competition influenced Cameron’s decision to promise an in/out referendum if re-elected in the 2015 general election. There are three parts to this analysis. The first part looks into whether issues related to the EU has been politicised by looking at the manifestoes of the four parties in the years of 2001‚ 2005‚ and 2010. The concepts of capacity and complexity are used in order to uncover changes in the manifestoes and a possible
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Nike Learns How to Change How did Nike change the way it made decisions and introduce new products? Nike found itself as a stagnated company with a new emergence of companies vying to take its market share so change was in Nike’s future and therefore changed the way it made decisions by bringing in managers and experts in their respective fields from outside the company to help make the changes needed. They started by purchasing specialist‚ niche market shoe companies like Cole Haan and Hurley so
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the Northern Hemisphere. Key Problems With the increase of global warming‚ Earth can expect consequences such as flooding in costal areas due to melting glaciers causing the sea level to rise‚ an increase in storms‚ droughts and heat waves‚ changes in precipitation and even an
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expansion and fit for company’s global operations. The key point of Western Union’s change strategy is to change its focus on U.S. product line to regional structure with three main divisions. Under this strategy‚ the company’s operational structure‚ culture‚ marketing channels will be changed accordingly. In addition‚ how to handle the challenges and resistance of change will play an important role when company manages changes. In my opinion‚ having a regional structure is a wise way for companies which
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The three models of agenda building consist of an outside initiative‚ inside initiative‚ and mobilization. Outside initiative usually occurs with more popular public issues. It goes from the outer circle of the community into the inner circle of the government. A good example of an outside initiative would be gay rights. Many people from the community brought the issue into government. Based on the actions of the community‚ the government were forced to make it apart of the agenda-setting. There too
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