For Wednesday:
This week's reflection email will be different: before our Wednesday class, send me a brief paragraph of your impressions of this video. What is the biggest takeaway?
Questions on the assignment?
Biases (the plural is important)
- Affective bias and negativity
- Information biases
- Personalization
- Dramatization
- Fragmentation and flashlights
- Authority-disorder (the expectation of a magic wand)
- Political biases: ideological and partisan (more on Wed.)
Other biases
- Access
- Routines, SOPs, and beats
- Affinity, language and cultural similarity. An example from Fleet Street: "One Englishman is a story. Ten Frenchmen is a story. One hundred Germans is a story. One thousand Indians is a story. Nothing ever happens in Chile.”
Review from our 9/11 class session:
Roger Ailes: Let's face it, there are three things that the media are interested in: pictures, mistakes and attacks. That's the one sure way of getting coverage. You try to avoid as many mistakes as you can. You try to give them as many pictures as you can. And if you need coverage, you attack, and you will get coverage.
It's my orchestra pit theory of politics. You have two guys on stage and one guy says, "I have a solution to the Middle East problem," and the other guy falls in the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news?
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One thing you don't want to do is get your head up too far on some new vision for America because then the next thing that happens is the media runs over to the Republican side and says, "Tell me why you think this is an idiotic idea."
Judy Woodruff: So you're saying the notion of the candidate saying, "I want to run for President because I want to do something for this country," is crazy.
Roger Ailes: Suicide.
An example from the current campaign -- and the debate;
Vulnerability is a function of time and place.
Vulerabilities Fade. Biden in the 1988 race.
Hart:
Trump and negativity
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