The Media’s Influence on the Government: A Case Study of Venezuela’s Media Agenda Setting with a Non-Free Press and Its Repercussions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials
2.1. Background on Venezuela’s Media Agenda Belief
2.1.1. Survey Format and Data Collection
2.1.2. Limitations
2.1.3. Results
2.1.4. Venezuelan Demographic Results
2.2. Background: Media Agenda Setting
In choosing and displaying news, editors, newsroom staff, and broadcasters play an important part in shaping political reality. Readers learn not only about a given issue, but also how much importance to attach to that issue from the amount of information in a news story and its position. In reflecting what candidates are saying during a campaign, the mass media may well determine the important issues—that is, the media may set the “agenda” of the campaign.(p. 176)
2.3. Venezuela and the Media
Although media use and avoidance measures appear to be valid enough in our Venezuelan setting, they are overshadowed by media exposure items in accounting for variation in both knowledge and the public agenda of important problems, on the whole. At the same time, media exposure is not a matter of simple “time spent” or “attention to” the newspaper or television news. Instead, our most powerful independent variables in the study have been the specific measures of exposure to “politics” in the media.
3. Discussion
Repercussions and Implications
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Fredricks, S.M.; Phillips, J.D. The Media’s Influence on the Government: A Case Study of Venezuela’s Media Agenda Setting with a Non-Free Press and Its Repercussions. Journal. Media 2021, 2, 275-287. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2020016
Fredricks SM, Phillips JD. The Media’s Influence on the Government: A Case Study of Venezuela’s Media Agenda Setting with a Non-Free Press and Its Repercussions. Journalism and Media. 2021; 2(2):275-287. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2020016
Chicago/Turabian StyleFredricks, Susan M., and Joshua D. Phillips. 2021. "The Media’s Influence on the Government: A Case Study of Venezuela’s Media Agenda Setting with a Non-Free Press and Its Repercussions" Journalism and Media 2, no. 2: 275-287. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2020016
APA StyleFredricks, S. M., & Phillips, J. D. (2021). The Media’s Influence on the Government: A Case Study of Venezuela’s Media Agenda Setting with a Non-Free Press and Its Repercussions. Journalism and Media, 2(2), 275-287. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2020016