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Publication details [#63519]

McCombs, Maxwell E. and Donald L. Shaw. 2017. The agenda-setting function of mass media. The Agenda Setting Journal 1 (2) : 105–116.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/asj

Annotation

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.