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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE MEDIA

AND DEMOCRACY

THE MEDIA

IN ONE WORD
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DEPENDABLE

WATERGATE SCANDAL, 1972
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HEROIC

VIETNAM, 1962
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ETHICAL

"CHURCH ALLOWED ABUSE BY PRIEST FOR YEARS"
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WHAT HAPPENED?

SIX PERCENT
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Fewer than half of Americans now say they trust the church, the medical system, the presidency, the Supreme Court, public schools, banks, organized labor, the criminal justice system, big business, and Congress. Public faith in each of these institutions has fallen this decade.

Why are we less trustworthy?

FAKE NEWS

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017

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And I think there were probably still some unanswered questions there. But the answer that they always gave me was that, you know, it was simply for money. There are a lot of sites run out of Veles, run out of Macedonia in general that we found. In particular, there's a huge cluster of websites in English about health issues because they find that that content does really well.
And if they sign up, for example, for Google AdSense, an ad program, they can get money as people visit their sites and it's pretty straightforward. So they tried election sites, and over time they all came to realize that the stuff that did the best was pro-Trump stuff. They got the most traffic and most traction.…

How can a newspaper attract views and still be unbiased?

NEWS VS OPINIONS

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WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT HILLARY?

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TRUMP'S NEWS

WHITE HOUSE SELECTIVELY BLOCKS MEDIA OUTLETS FROM BRIEFING WITH SPICER

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IS THIS BAD? WHY?

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WHAT NOW?