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The news provides a selective depiction of reality because it
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emphasizes dramatic and compelling news stories
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In comparison with today's newspapers, early American newspapers were
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could not have survived without political party support
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The technological change that brought about the decline of the partisan press was
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The invention of the high speed rotary press
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The yellow journalism of 1900 was characterized by
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The emphasis of sensationalism as a way of selling newspapers
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Objective reporting is based on the idea that the reporters job is to
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Report the facts and cover alternative sides of a partisan debate
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The communications act
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Imposed on broadcasters an "equal time" restriction that prevented preference for some political candidates over others
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Broadcasting revolutionized the American media because it
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Reached millions of people simultaneously
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The federal governments licensing of broadcasting is based primarily on
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The scarcity of broadcasting frequencies
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Freedom of the press is substantial in the United States because
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The term "framing" is used to describe
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The process of selecting certain aspects of reality and making them the most salient part of the communication, thereby conveying a particular interpretation of a situation
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American need reporting is
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The FCCs equal time requirement
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Prohibits broadcasters from selling or giving time to political candidates and denying it to their opponents
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When compared with their counterparts in Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and Italy, US journalists were more likely to
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One of the reasons that the reporting of national news is reported
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A small number of news organizations and news services generate most of the news
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What story describing actions by the Bush administration, reported by The New York Times in 2005, was then criticized by the Bush administration as damaging to national security?
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The media have professional norm and standards that create
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In contrast to European news media, American news media are more likely to
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act primarily as neutral transmitters of information
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The media perform the signaling role by
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Informing the public of important news developments as quickly as possible
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In terms of news consumption, since the 1980s young adults
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Have been less informed than the older ones
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The news medias common-carrier role is based on the idea that
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the press should provide a channel through which political leaders can communicate their views to the public
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Which institution receives the most news coverage from the nation press?
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The presidency
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The watergate scandal illustrates the
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Power of the media to serve as watchdog to safeguard against abuse of powers
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Agenda setting is an action that falls under which of the major roles played by the press?
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Signaler
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Which of the following has the lowest public confidence rating of any major American institution?
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The reason the news product is designed to fascinate as well as to inform is because
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news organizations are fundamentally businesses and must obtain revenue to survive
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On both radio and television, most successful partisan talk shows
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have been hosted by conservatives
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CNN and MSNBC have responded to Fox's success by
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installing talk-show hosts with partisan or hard-edged appeals
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Which of the following statements is true
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Objective journalism is based on communication of facts and fairness
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The Gazette of the United States was founded to promote the policies of President
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George Washington
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The special contribution of internet-based news is that it
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Provides the ordinary citizen with an opportunity to be part of the news system
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Which newspaper was the first to reduce the price of a daily copy to a penny?
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The New York Sun
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Yellow journalism contributed to public support for the
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Spanish-American War
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____ once said, "you furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"
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William Randolph Hearst
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The traditional media have "softened" their news by
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Infusing it with more stories about celebrities, crime, and the like
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The internet has
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In the 1960s, presidential candidates
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Had longer sound bites, on average, in broadcast television newscasts
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Which of the following characteristics does the internet have that the traditional media lacks?
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Which of the following statements has been shown by scholarly research to be true?
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Network journalists tend to be negative
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On-the-scene coverage of a natural disaster is an example of the press's role of
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Signaler
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During what decade did the American news audience change from a growing to shrinking one?
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The 1980s
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The need media are usually guided by events that
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Are timely
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Historically, the American press has shifted from
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A political to journalistic orientation
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The commitment of the contemporary traditional media to two-sided news reporting
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The average length of time that presidential candidates are shown speaking without interpretation on television broadcasts
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Which journalists are more likely to agree that they should be as nonpartisan in their reporting?
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