Definition of "agenda-setting" []

• A theory in mass-communication that states that the media have the ability to determine which issues are important to the public. (noun)

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• "The newsroom is divided into two streams: "fast", covering events that cannot be controlled, such as tsunamis, for both web and print; and "slow", concentrating on what SvD describes as its "agenda-setting" journalism, such as homegrown investigations."
• "The emphasis on original, off-diary stories means SvD's journalists are coming up with more agenda-setting news lines of their own."
• "But the deniers' message on global warming -- 'don't sweat it' -- has won the agenda-setting race."