During class today I started wondering if agenda setting, particularly policy agenda setting, plagues the rest of the world as much as I think it does America. From what I can tell, the American government has a fairly open form of government compared to the rest of the world. Does our form of democracy affect the ability for government policy to set our media's agenda? How about the public's agenda?
When I was visiting London last weekend, I met up with a friend from home. She had already been there for a day when I arrived. She began to recall all of the sights that she had seen, one of which was the Parliament. She told me that while sitting in on a session, she witnessed members pretty heatedly debating the wage war that's going on right now in London. I didn't think about it at the time, but today I started thinking about how the policy that will inevitably come out of those debates will affect the media's agenda as well as the public's agenda here in England. Would similar policy affect the media's agenda in the United States?
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I think that it really will, mainly because it has before. A few months ago there was a huge debate in the media and government about how minimum wage plus welfare won't even pay the lowest of living expenses.
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