Question

________ is the power the media have to shape what issues Americans think about and ________ is the power the media have to influence how Americans think about those issues.

Answer 1

Answer:

setting the agenda, framing and printing

Explanation:

Setting the agenda entails the power of the media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems.

This is the power the media have to shape what issues Americans think about.

Framimg talks about the power the media have to influence how Americans think about those issues.

Both framing and setting-agenda shows the power the media wields in determining how Americans see things and what Americans see and talk about.

Answer 2

Answer:

agenda setting; framing.

Explanation:

One of the Important power of the media is the ability to set what the public believes to be be the reality. This theory was proposed by Dr. Donald Shaw and Maxwell McCombs and just like it is given in the first statement in the question, agenda setting by the media is used to shape the issues people think about.

Another Important power of the media is framing. Framing is used by the media to influence how Americans think about the issues at hand. These two tools(that is agenda setting and framing) are important tools used by the media during political events.