Political science chapter 10

Which of the following statements about bloggers is LEAST accurate?

Although bloggers can amplify an already-reported story, they have not yet shown the capacity to break major news stories.

Based on current understandings of the First Amendment, which of the following statements regarding government regulation of the media is LEAST accurate?

Because the livelihood of public officials depends heavily on their reputations, courts have made it easy for them to successfully sue print media for libel.

Which of the following statements about media coverage of character issues is LEAST accurate?

During the first half of the twentieth century, the press devoted much of its coverage to uncovering the private peccadilloes of public officials.

Which president enjoyed the longest honeymoon period with the press?

Franklin Roosevelt

Which of the following statements about the state of the media and Americans' relationship to them today is accurate?

In the past few decades, only the attacks of September 11th, 2001, were able to briefly improve public views of the media

Which event convinced television networks that there was a large audience for televised news and led to the adoption of thirty-minute news programs?

Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate

Which of the following statements about press coverage of Congress is LEAST accurate?

The congressional media corps consists of fewer than 30 members.

Which of the following statements about political advertising is LEAST accurate?

The effectiveness of advertising, positive and negative, has been clearly established and quantified.

Which of the following statements most accurately describes John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's handling of the press?

They awarded government contracts to printers who supported their policies.

In 2016, people were most likely to get campaign news from

cable news.

As president during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln

censored war-related news and imprisoned editors.

During the terms of presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy, the relationship between the press and the presidency was

friendly, like that between fellow members of a men's club.

The tools by which modern presidential administrations control their image include all of the following EXCEPT

giving low-level members of the administration wide latitude to interact with the press and offer various, even competing, explanations of the president's policies.

Journalists frequently use sports metaphors to describe politics, and they are particularly likely to compare elections to

horseracing

Which of the following terms best describes yellow journalism?

sensational

Americans, on average, are most likely to get their national and international news from

television

Which of the following statements about government regulation of broadcast media is LEAST accurate?

the FCC regulates only the content of broadcast media, not the ownership of broadcast media outlets.

Young people report gathering most of their political information from

the internet

Which of the following has been called into doubt by the successful presidential campaign of Donald Trump?

the value of paid advertising in presidential campaigns

In the 2012 general election presidential debates, Mitt Romney

won the first debate and saw a boost in the polls.