agenda setting, n.Definitions

Agenda setting (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the decisive power: once the question is how best to contain the enemy, propaganda has won whatever answer is reached.

Agenda setting (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the work of a top tier of perhaps two dozen media systems, which, with the government and wire services, decide the news for the lower tiers and so for the public.