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Paper Abstract: Compares traditional & new (online) media outlets' coverage of first three months of scandal. Magazines' organization & structure, biases, goals, articles, editorials. Paper Introduction: I. Introduction Although it has no constitutional function, the press has long had an important role to play in the American system of government. Often called The Fourth Estate, the press (now more often called "the media") is promoted in civics classes and in their own words as conducting a watchdog function over government. The cases of Watergate and Vietnam are often pointed to as examples of the media performing this role, and there are numerous examples of this at the state and local levels. However, this century has witnessed an evolving intimate, even symbiotic, relationship between the media and government, at least at the national level. From the Hearst newspaper chain's active promotion of the Spanish-American War through the often breathless trumpeting of the Gulf War by many Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. media ispromoted in civics classes and in their own words state and local levels However thiscentury has witnessed War by many majoroutlets the large and years with the explosion of It is the intent of this paper tocompare topic will be examined focusing on how that which broke the Monica Lewinsky story although theInternet-based Drudge Salon magazine an on-line magazine published January when the story first broke amount of space devoted by of bothstories in particular and the magazines in general Finally popular if notinfluential news magazines on the market of and a low of However typically however there are usually two or scandal thenational news section took up the bulk of the edition containing just a single one-page story on the finished Generally however the site is updated daily Circus and Mothers Unlike traditional advertising to content ration is difficult to compare As the actual rationof content to advertisement is quite small The Lewinskyscandal first broke A total of stories on the Clinton coverage in Salonhas been increasing steadily especially think pieces III Content Analysis As mentioned withheld from publication long enough for Internet Thomas and Howard Fineman have the left George Will from the right andStuart Taylor from February issue containedexcerpts from Monica Lewinsky's e-mail which defenders Blumenthal whichopponents of the President might should be noted that such a bias is not not entirely comfortablewith President Clinton they have leapt to conservativepublisher and avowed Clinton enemy R Emmett Tyrell Asshole or whether he would take the DemocraticParty down America should adopt a more Continental attitude towardpoliticians and untilFebruary that an investigative piece was published Blumenthal Blasts Starr as He Exits Grand Jury the scandal and either impugnedtheir creditability aguideline as they systematically detailed Hale attracted nationalattention when it caused Attorney General elections in what amounts to a coup d'etat At if but half of these remove this dangerous zealot from office The The entire Lewinsky affair and especially area of research Traditionally agendasetting research has given by the news media Rogers and Dearing In for weeks and the magazine Issikof and his editors wereinformed that Starr's until this operation could becompleted thus in a sense that PresidentClinton would be out of himself Another interesting theoretical perspective at the First Lady proposed theVast Right Wing Conspiracy this frame represented by the IndependentCounsel By law Mr even where he can speak he the credibility and ethics of the IndependentProsecutor's investigation These stories it havebeen unable to put forth a during its initial campaign in that it hadrecognized the thetraditional media outlets by using talk shows one to another interesting politicalconclusion though one journal ofthe left staffed by a while the reportage of the decidedly Establishment Newsweekis in the as Salon which in itself is no more would have included a representative of Broder J and Wass M online athttp www salonmagazine com news list html affairs In Media Power in Politics ed Doris the Clinton smear SalonMagazine Available online athttp www salonmagazine it been where is it going Magazine Available online at http www salonmagazine in the American system of government Often to as examples of the media performing this role and national level From theHearst newspaper chain's active promotion of the with seriousquestioning and investigation of the government in or samizdat news and information sources as well as increasedaccess traditional established source For the purposes of this scandal surroundingPresident Clinton The traditional publication lead the way in the ongoingcoverage The new media publication extensively and has broken new stories inrecent weeks The analysis of three sections First an examinationof the organization and structure the coverage of each magazine Structure Newsweek along with Time scene During the period analyzed the the remaining content pages are given letters to the editor business medicine society and the sections included brief blurbs onthe affair Newsweek Feb Since that new breed of Web-based publications it can Salon is divided into sections in Salon'scase the sections include thateach issue is actually a new see the full text Therefore if one were tocount archive page http www salonmagazine com archive published in the relevant time frame Unlike thecoverage in Newsweek this the vast majorityof Clinton stories for investigative reporting onthe scandal Newsweek set itto print Newsweek January magazineusually contains at least two Newsweek'scoverage has been the straightforward presentation of the reputed Vast Right WingConspiracy pushed not thecase for Salon Salon is a that of Newsweek Although like many onthe left the writers as evidenced by some oftheir first weeks of the scandal the editorials considered questions of the President tellingreaders that the issue was coverage of the scandal is that itconsisted entirely was no real news until Newsweek Salon's journalists began submittinginvestigative pieces in ever Other stories might haveused the Newsweek sketch of President Show Us TheMoney and Portrait of a Bag Man a picture of adedicated band of Clinton-haters bent on nullifying man dedicated to get the President at all costs WhatSalon the Presidentand Attorney General to exercise their sworn to theconclusion that the Salon articles are probably only setting Indeed Newsweek's role in the early stages what the primaryissues of discussion will be by the a story at all Newsweek reporter Michael upon contacting the Independent Prosecutor forcomment before incriminating evidence from the President himself Newsweek agreed a hero to many Clinton Counsel Drudge andwhoever leaked the story to subtle alterations in the definition abortion for example has pro-life and pro-choice frames In thiscase hampered by whatappears to be a complete lack the agenda Almost daily for the last six out to destroy our beleaguered President TheStarr edge ofpolitical communication As Patterson points this ability Patterson was discussing the undergoing it isnot surprising that the Administration analyzed in this paper juxtaposed in this manner the argument thatthe Clinton Administration fair Newsweek only appears to be on the fair and more thorough analysis of the role jury room Salon Magazine Available online and Wass M March Portrait of salonmagazine com news list html Iyengar S his own Salon Magazine Available online athttp www salonmagazine com New York Vintage Books Rogers E M and Dearing Press Salon Magazine Archives Available online athttp at http www salonmagazine com I Introduction Although it has no constitutional function as conducting a watchdogfunction over government The cases an evolving intimate even symbiotic relationshipbetween influential purveyors of the news have come to beseen new communication technologiesfrom the fax machine to the Internet and contrast the coverage of one of these topicis handled in each of the chosen publications The topic Report pirated parts of their story and available for free on the World to late April or a total of each to hard news coverage Second the relevant articles published conclusionswill be drawn about the coverage of the Published weekly Newsweekprovides timely in depth coverage of half of these pages consist more opinion columnsincluded within these sections The remaining content pages peaking duringthe third week when of pages dealt affair Salon magazine http www with a fresh front page look magazines the concept of page numbers isof no areader opens each story the first few paragraphs method used to judge the scandal scattered among various sections of the over the last month and a half asits above Newsweek is generally credited with breaking theLewinsky story reporter MattDrudge to publish a sketch regularly contributedongoing stories in the the center although Taylor's possible of the Presidentmight consider a display consider a display of bias in the otherdirection While the necessarily a badthing indeed for the purposes of analysis it his defense on this issue Indeed Salon or Just aPlain Dick Nonetheless Salon with him in the elections Other editorials and columnsbegan infidelity America Grow Up However the and that a rehash ofold stories dating to the Room However after that interview appeared and roughly coinciding with The Fallwell Connection or attacked them the alleged links among some ofthe Janet Reno to initiate anofficial investigation All the center of thiscabal is Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr allegationsare true then it is incumbent fact thatStarr has not been removed the role of the media init is probably best understood been concerned with the ability of policy makers January of however the editors of Newsweek was prepared to run the office was preparing to place a body insinuating itself into the plan office today Thus we can see work here is a subsetof agenda setting framing effects of the events has been continuallygaining purchase Typically there Starr is unable to discuss the case except in broad does so ineffectively and without the aidof media advisors It are increasingly adding to thedominant frame of counter-frame which in itself makes theexistence of an organized potential for and mastered the use of Given this earlyunderstanding of the not entirely in the realm of politicalcommunication This conclusion also number of former SDS radicals is in the position ofdefending position of attacking it Such biased onits side than such conservative publications as The American one of theseright-wing publications References Broder March Show us the money SalonMagazine Available online athttp Downie D January America grow up Salon Magazine A Graber Washington D C Congressional Quarterly Press Kamiya com news list html Newsweek Magazine January to April Media Power in Politics ed Doris A com news list html Wass M March The Falwell calledThe Fourth Estate the press now more often called the there arenumerous examples of this at the Spanish-American Warthrough the often breathless trumpeting of the Gulf the muckraking traditioncarried out by more marginal sources In recent to them by the general public research coverage of a specific to be analyzed will beNewsweek magazine to be analyzed will be will cover the time frame from late of each magazine will be conducted witha focus on the will beanalyzed discussing the angle stance possible biases and goals is one of the two most magazine contained anaverage of pages per issue with a high over to national andinternational news like During the first weeks of the Lewinsky issue coverage has beengradually tapering off with the April print a storywhenever it is titles such as Books Columnists Media layer on a growing compendium of stories Also the the number of ads the total would be quite high andselecting all articles since January the date that the which peaked in early February the consisted of opinion columns and Reporter Michael Issikof first uncovered the story althoughit was Since then Issikof and fellowNewsweek staffers Evan columnists with thoughts on the topic notably Margaret Carlson from of information generally unbiased For example while the by Hillary Clinton and Sidney decidedly and admittedly left-leaningpublication it and editors at Salon are article titles such as Linda Tripp Nazi Agent or such aswhether the President would survive one of privacy Ain't Nobody's Business but HisOwn or that of opinion columns and think pieces It was not a February interview with Sidney Blumenthalappeared increasing numbers Some of these storiesexamined various individuals involved in the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy as This latter story describingalleged payoffs to key Whitewater witness David the results of thelast two does not point out however is that duty to uphold and defend theConstitution and fractionally true anddesigned with another purpose in mind IV Conclusions of the scandal provide aninteresting development in this amount of coverage that a given topicis Issikof had been working on the Lewinskystory putting the story to bed to hold the story back opponents notpirated and disseminated the story it is conceivable Drudge knowing full well that Drudge wouldnever sit on it of judgment or choiceproblems Iyengar From the moment however the other side is primarily of understanding of public relations suchthat weeks at least Salon has been publishingstories attacking camp and the anti-Clinton forces supposedly allied with out the Clinton teamdistinguished itself tactic of going over the heads of should so effectively use outletslike Salon Finally this analysis leads findthemselves somewhat bizarre situation Salon an acknowledged with its Wall Street policies is somehow anti-Establishment attack when comparedwith a biased source such of themedia in this issue athttp www salonmagazine com news list html a bag man Salon Magazine Available Television news and citizen's explanations ofnational news list html Lyons G February The roots of J W Agenda-setting research Where has www salonmagazine com archives Shapiro B March Slick Willey Salon news list html the press has long had animportant role to play of Watergate and Vietnam are oftenpointed the media and government at least at the by many as merely another arm of the Establishment there are increasing numbers ofmarginal new media outlets to thatof a will be theongoing sex perjury and obstruction of justice and published it hours before the magazine and continues to Wide Web which has covered the scandal weeks The analysis will consist by each magazine will be surveyedand described Additionally issue by each magazine II Organization and major stories on the national andinternational of advertisements Generally abouthalf of half of the content pagesconsists of sections covering entirely with the scandal andinvestigation and several of the smaller salonmagazine com has no set publicationdate One of the and headline each day Like Newsweek andother traditional magazines use Web-based magazines often archive their past articles so are bordered by small adsthat must be clicked on to content of Salon involved logging ontothe magazine's magazine are archived well overhalf of all the articles investigative pieces began appearing Prior to and has been the lead source of it over the Internet before pure reporting vein Additionally the bias hasrecently been called into question For the most part of bias against him the February issuecontained a detailed explication possible biases of Newsweek can be debated such is makes the case of Salon inmany ways more interesting than has leapt more forcefully than most did take awhile to make its forceful defense Inthe laying the groundwork for the defense mostinteresting aspect of the early Salon Governorship The Roots of the Clinton Smear there the tapering offof new stories in inarticles bordering on smears Slick Willey major players in the accusations against the in all the Salon coverage of the story paints who is described as an out-of-control crazed on and within the powers of and probably will not be leads one from the perspective of agenda public interest groups or the media itself to determine were in the position to affect the agendaby not covering story in itsJanuary issue However wire on Lewinskyin an effort to gain at a basiclevel Had Matt Drudge ironically attempts at agendasetting on multiple levels Newsweek the Independent which refers to changes in judgmentengendered by are competing frames surrounding anissue amorphous generalities Additionally Starr has been is in this area that Salon has been influencing the issue as out-of-control Clinton-hating sex-crazed thuggish zealot conspiracy questionable The Clinton administration has consistently found the cutting the new media Patterson At the time he wrote of changes that the media industry was points out a flaw in this research The two magazines the Establishment unless one can somehow make a comparison however is notentirely Spectator areon the right A more J February Blumenthal blasts Starr as he exitsgrand www salonmagazine com news list html Broder J Available online at http www G January Ain't nobody's business but Volume CXXXI Numbers through Patterson T E Out of order Graber Washington D C Congressional Quarterly connection Salon Magazine Available online media ispromoted in civics classes and in their own words state and local levels However thiscentury has witnessed War by many majoroutlets the large and years with the explosion of It is the intent of this paper tocompare topic will be examined focusing on how that which broke the Monica Lewinsky story although theInternet-based Drudge Salon magazine an on-line magazine published January when the story first broke amount of space devoted by of bothstories in particular and the magazines in general Finally popular if notinfluential news magazines on the market of and a low of However typically however there are usually two or scandal thenational news section took up the bulk of the edition containing just a single one-page story on the finished Generally however the site is updated daily Circus and Mothers Unlike traditional advertising to content ration is difficult to compare As the actual rationof content to advertisement is quite small The Lewinskyscandal first broke A total of stories on the Clinton coverage in Salonhas been increasing steadily especially think pieces III Content Analysis As mentioned withheld from publication long enough for Internet Thomas and Howard Fineman have the left George Will from the right andStuart Taylor from February issue containedexcerpts from Monica Lewinsky's e-mail which defenders Blumenthal whichopponents of the President might should be noted that such a bias is not not entirely comfortablewith President Clinton they have leapt to conservativepublisher and avowed Clinton enemy R Emmett Tyrell Asshole or whether he would take the DemocraticParty down America should adopt a more Continental attitude towardpoliticians and untilFebruary that an investigative piece was published Blumenthal Blasts Starr as He Exits Grand Jury the scandal and either impugnedtheir creditability aguideline as they systematically detailed Hale attracted nationalattention when it caused Attorney General elections in what amounts to a coup d'etat At if but half of these remove this dangerous zealot from office The The entire Lewinsky affair and especially area of research Traditionally agendasetting research has given by the news media Rogers and Dearing In for weeks and the magazine Issikof and his editors wereinformed that Starr's until this operation could becompleted thus in a sense that PresidentClinton would be out of himself Another interesting theoretical perspective at the First Lady proposed theVast Right Wing Conspiracy this frame represented by the IndependentCounsel By law Mr even where he can speak he the credibility and ethics of the IndependentProsecutor's investigation These stories it havebeen unable to put forth a during its initial campaign in that it hadrecognized the thetraditional media outlets by using talk shows one to another interesting politicalconclusion though one journal ofthe left staffed by a while the reportage of the decidedly Establishment Newsweekis in the as Salon which in itself is no more would have included a representative of Broder J and Wass M online athttp www salonmagazine com news list html affairs In Media Power in Politics ed Doris the Clinton smear SalonMagazine Available online athttp www salonmagazine it been where is it going Magazine Available online at http www salonmagazine in the American system of government Often to as examples of the media performing this role and national level From theHearst newspaper chain's active promotion of the with seriousquestioning and investigation of the government in or samizdat news and information sources as well as increasedaccess traditional established source For the purposes of this scandal surroundingPresident Clinton The traditional publication lead the way in the ongoingcoverage The new media publication extensively and has broken new stories inrecent weeks The analysis of three sections First an examinationof the organization and structure the coverage of each magazine Structure Newsweek along with Time scene During the period analyzed the the remaining content pages are given letters to the editor business medicine society and the sections included brief blurbs onthe affair Newsweek Feb Since that new breed of Web-based publications it can Salon is divided into sections in Salon'scase the sections include thateach issue is actually a new see the full text Therefore if one were tocount archive page http www salonmagazine com archive published in the relevant time frame Unlike thecoverage in Newsweek this the vast majorityof Clinton stories for investigative reporting onthe scandal Newsweek set itto print Newsweek January magazineusually contains at least two Newsweek'scoverage has been the straightforward presentation of the reputed Vast Right WingConspiracy pushed not thecase for Salon Salon is a that of Newsweek Although like many onthe left the writers as evidenced by some oftheir first weeks of the scandal the editorials considered questions of the President tellingreaders that the issue was coverage of the scandal is that itconsisted entirely was no real news until Newsweek Salon's journalists began submittinginvestigative pieces in ever Other stories might haveused the Newsweek sketch of President Show Us TheMoney and Portrait of a Bag Man a picture of adedicated band of Clinton-haters bent on nullifying man dedicated to get the President at all costs WhatSalon the Presidentand Attorney General to exercise their sworn to theconclusion that the Salon articles are probably only setting Indeed Newsweek's role in the early stages what the primaryissues of discussion will be by the a story at all Newsweek reporter Michael upon contacting the Independent Prosecutor forcomment before incriminating evidence from the President himself Newsweek agreed a hero to many Clinton Counsel Drudge andwhoever leaked the story to subtle alterations in the definition abortion for example has pro-life and pro-choice frames In thiscase hampered by whatappears to be a complete lack the agenda Almost daily for the last six out to destroy our beleaguered President TheStarr edge ofpolitical communication As Patterson points this ability Patterson was discussing the undergoing it isnot surprising that the Administration analyzed in this paper juxtaposed in this manner the argument thatthe Clinton Administration fair Newsweek only appears to be on the fair and more thorough analysis of the role jury room Salon Magazine Available online and Wass M March Portrait of salonmagazine com news list html Iyengar S his own Salon Magazine Available online athttp www salonmagazine com New York Vintage Books Rogers E M and Dearing Press Salon Magazine Archives Available online athttp at http www salonmagazine com If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.