Local Television Political Advertising and the Manufacturing of Political Reality

With so much media attention on the presidential campaign, how do voters learn about candidates and elections for other offices? On local TV news, political ads create the reality of local races—a reality that is not meant to inform voters but to persuade them. Voters are left to their own devices t...

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Autor principal: Yanich, Danilo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Symposium: The 2020 U.S. Elections
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7595048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33144747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00538-8
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description With so much media attention on the presidential campaign, how do voters learn about candidates and elections for other offices? On local TV news, political ads create the reality of local races—a reality that is not meant to inform voters but to persuade them. Voters are left to their own devices to fill in the space between what the ads say—the bought reality—and what political stories used to cover.
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spelling pubmed-75950482020-10-30 Local Television Political Advertising and the Manufacturing of Political Reality Yanich, Danilo Society Symposium: The 2020 U.S. Elections With so much media attention on the presidential campaign, how do voters learn about candidates and elections for other offices? On local TV news, political ads create the reality of local races—a reality that is not meant to inform voters but to persuade them. Voters are left to their own devices to fill in the space between what the ads say—the bought reality—and what political stories used to cover. Springer US 2020-10-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7595048/ /pubmed/33144747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00538-8 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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