Shoemaker and Reese
“Patterns of Media Content”
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Partisanship
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Propaganda
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Unwitting bias
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Ideology
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TV
content is violent and produces the “mean and scary world syndrome”
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Mainstreaming
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Resonance
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Newsworthiness
standard
Sources
and Topics
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“knowns”
and the “unknowns”
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Focus
on official sources
Geography
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Domestic
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International
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Third
World = conflict and crisis, deviance and sensational
Demographics
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Overrepresented:
professionals; upper middle class and up; Caucasians; men
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Underrepresented:
clerical and service; lower and middle classes; minorities; women
Media stereotypes
Unity
of Content
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Maintaining
normalcy and the status quo
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Maps
power relations
Anderson -
"Disneyland"
Disneyland’s link production
total merchandising
studio promotion
“educating” viewers
·
companion
to cinema
·
behind
the scenes
·
history
Implications for Disney
feature films and the Disneyland amusement park
