Introduction [excerpts] In this study I want to highlight the content of television news and demonstrate if it sets a specific political agenda for the American public. The agenda setting theory proposes that mass media can have a signficant effect on what audiences know or learn from the agenda setter; in this case it would be televison news .... There are many outcomes that agenda setting may provoke. Due to television news' agenda setting power, local broadcasting stations can heighten coverage on specific...