Learning Objectives
- Discuss changes over the past several decades in the ways in which Americans get their news and information.
- Describe the ways in which media ownership and government regulation influence the news we get.
- Explain the roles and responsibilities of journalists and the tools they use to shape and perpetuate political narratives.
- Identify the strategies politicians use to counter the influence of the media and shape and perpetuate their own political narratives.
- Summarize the relationship between citizens and the media.