POLI 1090 - Ch. 14: The News Media quiz

Which of the following statements about trust and the press is accurate?

People say that the news sources they use, as opposed to the news in general, are more likely than not to get things right.

As early as 1940, Fortune magazine reported that most respondents to its reader survey got their news mainly from ______.

Radio

What role does the press play in helping citizens monitor their elected leaders?

The press ferrets out incompetence and malfeasance when challengers fail to perform due diligence.

Formidable publishing barons such as Hearst and Pulitzer disappeared after which of the following occurrences?

Commercial radio took away their monopoly on the news

Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet ______ became an instant bestseller: More than 120,000 copies were sold in its first 3 months.

Common sense

Marketplace ______ for consumers' attention has been the key driver of these innovations, prompting news providers to embrace new communications technologies as they try to get an edge on their competitors.

Competition

Which of the following criteria is not typically employed when the media decide whether or not to include a story in the newspaper or broadcast?

Foreign or domestic policy

The franking privilege

allows members of Congress free access to the postal system for official correspondence.

How was the union of press and party politics fully realized during Andrew Jackson's administration?

Many of his closest advisers were seasoned journalists, and he appointed numerous editors to patronage positions, such as postmasters or customs agents

How has the importance of making profits affected the news media?

News outlets do everything they can to attract and keep an audience.

By the 1960s, what was the chief source of news for many Americans?

Nightly evening network news

By the end of the 1960s, households with televisions outnumbered those with

indoor plumbing

The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live are examples of ______.

infotainment

All of the innovations in mass communication technology have.

made the news more widely available to consumers.

The transformation of newspapers into instruments of mass communication meant that

politicians frequently found themselves bowing to powerful editors and publishers.

In March 2011, Senator Rand Paul responded to President Barack Obama's nationally televised address on military action in Libya by

posting his own video on YouTube

The relationship between politicians and reporters can best be described as

built on a tension between reciprocity and competition.

Franklin Roosevelt called his bi weekly press conferences with regular members of the Washington press corps ______.

family gatherings

**Within a few decades of ratification of the First Amendment, the notion that the free press would guard the citizenry's liberties against the designs of ambitious politicians**

had been replaced by the press as dedicated partisan boosters.

During the 1920s, when hundreds of radio stations overcrowded desirable spots on the radio dial, the FCC was created in part to solve this classic

tragedy of the commons

What does the example of the Pentagon Papers illustrates about the doctrine of prior restraint?

Exercising prior restraint requires the government to demonstrate that the publication of documents would damage national security.

What allowed the penny press to thrive in the nineteenth century?

Expanding the news to include human interest stories and coverage of crime, business, and social events

What have technological changes done to the "fairness doctrine"?

The rapid spread of broadband Internet as an alternative, wide-open source of political expression has made the fairness doctrine moot.

T/F Proving libel requires injured individuals to prove that a story was false and that a news producer acted with malice by publishing a damaging story it knew to be false.

True

T/F The union of press and party politics was fully realized during the administration of Andrew Jackson.

True

T/F When the three broadcast networks dominated the market, they bunched together in the political middle like candidates pursuing the median voter.

True

Innovation in mass communication has resulted in

a dramatic expansion of news as a consumer product

Both newspapers and broadcast media cover the regular sources of important stories in a systematic fashion by permanently assigning reporters to certain venues, traditionally called ______.

beats

**During colonial times, it was quite common for**

commentaries or reporting that first appeared in a weekly paper to be republished in pamphlet form for wider circulation.

Joseph McCarthy always appeared before television cameras with loose sheets of paper, which he could wave at the camera and claim contained the names of known

communists in the State Department.

To characterize the news media businesses

does not discredit their integrity as suppliers of vital civic information.

"Yellow journalism" was a term first used at the end of the nineteenth century that referred to

the use of outrageous and inflammatory headlines as well as sensational stories to attract readers to newspapers, so called because of the color of ink used in the New York World's comic strips.