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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a U.S. late night comedy and variety show that first aired on NBC in October, 1975. The show satirizes current events and news personalities through a format of skits and sketches. One example is “Weekend Update,” a sketch that parodies news broadcasts and has helped launch the careers of many famous comedians, such as Dennis Miller and Chevy Chase. Saturday Night Live has been a cornerstone of NBC's late night programming and a model for subsequent late night television comedy shows such as Politically Incorrect and The Daily Show that are becoming more and more popular as alternative sources of political information.
A key impact of the mass media is their ability to inform. The quality of public debate on issues and ...
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- American-Style Campaigning
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- Campaigns & Elections Magazine
- Democratization, Role of the Media in
- Graduate School of Political Management
- Grassroots Campaigning
- Communism
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- Ideology
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- Apologia
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- Iowa Caucuses
- Conservative, Conservatism
- Brazil, Media and the Political System
- Al Jazeera Television
- Mass Political Behavior
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- Helsinki Process
- Center for the Study of the American Electorate
- Issue Management
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- Argumentation, Political
- Hill–Thomas Hearings
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- Candidates and Their Images
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- Primaries
- E-Government
- Buckley v. Valeo
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- New Right
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- Citizen Kane
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- Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
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- Political Commercial Archive
- Second-Order Election
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- Mass Political Behavior
- Pooled Journalism
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- Creating Reality
- Russia, Democratization and Media
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- Voter News Service
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- Communications Act of 1934
- Blogs, Blogging
- Political Correctness
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- Iowa Caucuses
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- Free Airtime
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- Democratic National Committee
- Political Corruption
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- Critical Theory
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- Daily Show, The
- World Association for Public Opinion Research
- Youth Voting
- European Union
- Equal Time Provision
- Bush–Rather Confrontation
- Political Involvement
- Grassroots Campaigning
- Kennedy Assassination
- Democratic Party
- Political Knowledge
- Talk Shows, Television
- Cultivation Theory
- Berlusconi, Silvio
- Deciding What's News
- Federal Trade Commission
- European Commission
- Campaigns & Elections Magazine
- Political Knowledge
- Hate Speech
- Mass Nonviolent Protest, Australia
- European Association of Political Consultants
- Segregation
- Women Candidates, News Coverage
- Cultural Imperialism
- Blair, Tony
- Effects of Mass Communication, The
- Government Communication
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Candidate Films, Biographical
- Polls
- Iowa Caucuses
- McCarthy Hearings
- European Parliament
- Welfare Policy
- Yellow Journalism
- Cultural Studies
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- Film and Politics
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- European Court of Justice
- Cartoons, Political
- Populism
- Media Consultants
- Muhammed Cartoon Events
- European Parliamentary Elections
- Dealignment
- Bormann, Ernest
- Four Theories of the Press
- Hungary, Communication and Politics
- European Union Media Policy
- Checkers Speech
- Psychographics in Politics
- Negative Campaigning
- Pentagon Papers, The
- European Union
- Deliberation
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- Great Debates, The
- Political Prisoners
- Fairness Doctrine
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- Public Opinion
- Party Election Broadcasts
- Political Conflict
- European Union, Media Policy
- Democracy Theories
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- Handbook of Political Communication, The
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- Federal Election Campaign Act
- Citizen Journalism
- Race in Politics
- Personal Campaigning
- Political Scandal
- Feminist Movement
- Demography
- Broder, David
- Image, The
- Proportional Representation
- Federal Trade Commission
- CNN (Cable News Network)
- Ticket Splitting
- Political Advertising
- Protests, Political
- Freedom Forum Media Studies Center
- Dependency Theory, Media
- Buchanan, Patrick
- Mediated Political Realities
- Public Affairs, Communication in
- First Amendment
- Commander in Chief
- Voter Behavior
- Political Advertising, Independent
- Revolution, Political
- Glasgow Media Group
- Diffusion of Innovations
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- State of the Union Address
- Free Airtime
- Commentary, Political
- Political Advertising, Radio
- Speeches, Presidential
- Green Party
- Digital Divide
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- News: The Politics of Illusion
- Supreme Court, Media and the
- Freedom of Information
- Congress and the Media
- Primaries
- Spiegel Affair
- Interest Groups in Politics
- Dramatistic Approaches to Political Communication
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- Nightline
- Libel
- C-SPAN Network
- Soft Money
- State of the Union Address
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- Fantasy Theme Analysis
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- McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
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- Tampa Incident
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- Web Campaigning
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- Feminine Style in Communication
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- Political Campaign Communication
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- Webstyle
- Waldheim Affair
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- War Coverage
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- Heuristics in Political Decision Making
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- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- Hostile Media Effect
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- Humor in Politics
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- United States Information Agency
- Fireside Chats
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- Reform Party
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- Religion in Politics
- Information Society
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- West Wing, The
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- Republican Party
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- Hard News
- Solidarity Movement
- Interpersonal Communication
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- Horserace Coverage
- UNESCO Media Policy
- Kids Voting USA
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- Hostile Media Effect
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- Limited Effects Theory
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- Methodology
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- New Media Technologies
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- Party Election Broadcasts
- Political Marketing
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- Party Press
- Political Scandal
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- Political Socialization
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- Politics, Policy, Polity
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- Political Advertising, Radio
- Presidential Communication
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- Political Advertising
- Press and Politics
- Hart, Gary
- Political Branding
- Press Theories
- Hart, Roderick P.
- Pooled Journalism
- Priming
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- Posters, Political
- Professionalization
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- Press and Politics
- Propaganda
- Hearst, William Randolph
- Press Conferences
- Psychographics in Politics
- Hitler, Adolf
- Press Freedom
- Public Communication in Politics
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- Press Secretary, White House
- Public Sphere
- Humphrey, Hubert H.
- Press Theories
- Pundits, Punditry
- Hussein I, King
- Public Affairs, Communication in
- Race in Politics
- Jackson, Jesse
- Public Relations, Political
- Reputation in Politics
- Jamieson, Kathleen Hall
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Resonance Theory
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Radio Addresses
- Rhetoric, Political
- Jordan, Barbara
- Radio Free Europe
- Selective Processes, Exposure, Perception, Memory
- Kaid, Lynda Lee
- Radio, Politics and
- Sleeper Effect
- Katz, Elihu
- Reporters Without Borders
- Social Marketing
- Kekkonen, Urho
- Rock the Vote
- Social Responsibility Theory
- Kennedy, Edward (Ted)
- Russia, Democratization and Media
- Speeches, Presidential
- Kennedy, John F.
- Rwanda Genocide, Role of Media
- Spiral of Silence
- Kennedy, Robert F.
- Saturday Night Live
- Strategic Communication
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- Soft News
- Symbolic Convergence Theory
- Kepplinger, Hans Mathias
- Sound Bite
- Systems Theory
- Kerry, John
- Spin, Political
- Third-Person Effect
- Khrushchev, Nikita
- Stringer
- Two-Step Flow Model of Communication
- Kibaki, Mwai
- Supreme Court, Media and the
- Uses and Gratifications Approach
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Tabloids
- Verbal Style
- Klapper, Joseph
- Talk Radio, Political
- Videostyle
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- Talk Shows, Television
- Voter Behavior
- Kraus, Sidney
- Tampa Incident
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- TechnoDistortions
- Kwaśniewski, Aleksander
- Testimonials, Political
- Lang, Gladys Engel
- Underground Media
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- UNESCO Media Policy
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- Video Games, Political
- Lazarsfeld, Paul F.
- Videostyle
- Lehrer, Jim
- Voice of America
- Lenin, Vladímir I.
- Voter News Service
- Le Pen, Jean-Marie
- War Coverage
- Lewinsky, Monica
- War of the Worlds, The
- Limbaugh, Rush
- Washington Post, The
- Lippmann, Walter
- Web Campaigning
- Loukanov, Andrey
- Webstyle
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- West Wing, The
- Mancini, Paolo
- White House Press Corps
- Mandela, Nelson
- Willie Horton Ad
- Mandelson, Peter
- Women Candidates, Advertising
- Mao Zedong
- Women Candidates, News Coverage
- Marx, Karl
- World Wide Web, Political Uses
- Matalin, Mary
- Mazzoleni, Gianpietro
- McCain, John
- McCombs, Maxwell
- McGovern, George
- McLuhan, Marshall
- McQuail, Denis
- Meir, Golda
- Menem, Carlos
- Merkel, Angela
- Mitsotakis, Konstantinos
- Mitterrand, François
- Mohammed VI
- Moi, Daniel Arap
- Morales, Evo
- Moseley Braun, Carol
- Moyers, William (Bill)
- Mubarak, Hosni
- Murrow, Edward R.
- Muskie, Edmund
- Nader, Ralph
- Napolitan, Joseph
- Nasser, Gamal Abdel
- Nimmo, Dan
- Nixon, Richard M.
- Noelle-Neumann, Elisabeth
- Nyerere, Julius
- Obama, Barack
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
- O'Reilly, Bill
- Özal, Turgut
- Palme, Olof
- Papandreou, Andreas
- Perón, Juan
- Perón, María Eva Duarte de
- Perot, Ross
- Putin, Vladimir
- Quayle, Dan
- Rabin, Yitzhak
- Rather, Dan
- Rawlings, Jerry
- Reagan, Nancy
- Reagan, Ronald
- Rice, Condoleezza
- Richards, Ann
- Rivera, Geraldo
- Rogers, Everett M.
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Sabato, Larry
- Sanders, Keith R.
- Schramm, Wilbur
- Schröder, Gerhard
- Schroeder, Patricia
- Schulz, Winfried
- Schüssel, Wolfgang
- Schwartz, Tony
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar
- Sharon, Ariel
- Simitis, Konstantinos
- Stephanopoulos, George
- Stevenson, Adlai
- Thatcher, Margaret
- Trippi, Joe
- Uzan, Cem
- Vargas, Getulio
- Vranitzky, Franz
- Wałęsa, Lech
- Wallace, George
- Watts, J. C.
- Weaver, David H.
- Wellstone, Paul
- Will, George
- Wilson, Harold
- Wolfsfeld, Gadi
- Yassine, Abdessalam
- Yeltsin, Boris
- Zhelev, Zhelyu
- Zhivkov, Todor
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