 | Chapter Objectives
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Having read the chapter, students should be able to:
- Discuss the way the media has changed over time from the partisan press to the World Wide Web.
- Describe the trends that characterize media usage today.
- Discuss today's American mass media environment and describe the trends that shape the messages that we receive about government.
- Explain the various aspects of the relationship between the media and political campaigns.
- Discuss the media's treatment of each branch of government.
- Name some of the major deficiencies in today's modern media and what the media can do to correct these deficiencies.
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