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Agenda Setting Theory and the Hostile Media Effect

14 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta

Agenda-setting is “the ability to influence the salience of topics on the public agenda” (McCombs and Reynolds 1). Rather than telling the public what to think, mass media curates which issues to think about. As Walter Lippmann would have it, the med...