American Government Chapter 10
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Why does the news provide a refracted version of reality?
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The news usually only covers current information that is interesting
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Framing
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The process by which journalist select particular aspects of situations and craft their stories around these aspects
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Historically, the American press has shifted from....
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Being tied to the nationals political party system to becoming an independent position
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The yellow journalism of the late 19th century was characterized by
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It was a new style that use every tactic to get readers
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Yellow journalism contributed to public support for the
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Spanish American war
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Objective journalism is based on
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Potentially unbalanced views on politics, etc.
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Over the last century, which newspaper has had a lasting reputation of the country's best newspaper?
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New York Times
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The federal government's license thing of broadcasting is based primarily on
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Because broadcasting frequencies were limited
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Which television network, is typically considered the most partisan?
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CNN
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The reason the news product is designed to fascinate as well as informed is because
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They need to attract an audience
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On the scene coverage of a natural disaster is an example of the presses roll of
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Signaling function
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The meteor perform the signaling Roll by
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Informing the public to important information soon as it happens
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Agenda setting is an action that falls under which of the major roles by the
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Media, in which the influence what is on people's minds
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In contrast with some European news media, the main television news networks in the newspaper in America are more likely to
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Tree political leaders inA balanced way
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Which of the following broadcast news sources has seen its audience goes it's early 1990s?
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NPR, national public radio
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The news medias common carrier rule is based on the idea that
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The media should inform the public about politicians opinions are the issues
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Which institution receives the most news coverage from the national press?
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The president
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I want to gate scandal illustrates the
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Ability of the press to quickly pounce on any side of public road doing
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How has the Internet affected the watchdog role of the media?
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It has enlarged the watchdog capacity
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Scholarly research has shown that, overall, the traditional media
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Is balanced
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On the radio and television, the most successful partisan talkshows
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Hard-core conservative
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CNN and MS NBC have responded to Fox's ratings success by
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Hiring their own talk show hosts
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Which region of the country overall has lowest connectivity to the Internet?
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The south, like Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Tennessee
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Most successful Internet blogs
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Have a liberal bias
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The rise of the Internet as a news source has
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Made it so that people only have to hear what they want to hear
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Staunch conservative's are most likely to pay regular attention to
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FOXNews
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Of all the time people spend on the Internet, they spend the least amount of time in which of the following?
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News and current events
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In terms of news consumption, since the 1980s young
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Consume less news
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What is the reason William Randolph Hearst and other resorted to yellow journalism?
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It allowed them to attract viewers
