How does political writing affect voter perceptions?
David Paul Kuhn is a Senior Political Writer for Politico. Kuhn is the author of the recently published, The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma.
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| 1. How does Kuhn characterize the influence of the Internet on mainstream media sources? |
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| 2. What implications are there for a decrease in what he calls “news analysis’? What does this mean for the idea of an “informed vote”? |
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| 3. Are the media exerting more influence over politics than before? |
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Media and the political conventions
Jay Rosen teaches Journalism at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. He is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals, which he introduced in September 2003.
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| 4. How does Rosen characterize the way the media cover party conventions? |
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| 5. What ways could the media cover politics to make things more interesting? How would that change how voters would be able to make decisions? |
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| 6. Are Rosen’s ideas similar to Kuhn’s? How so? |
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