Am. Government 2
Research on the impact of soft news finds it
All of the above are true
A media event is
a situation that is too newsworthy for the media to ignore.
When the media regularly focus public attention on violent crime, political corruption, or economic woes, they are engaged in
agenda setting
The phrase "on background" means that media are permitted to
anonymously quote material without identifying the source
The five members of the Federal Communications Commission
are appointed by the president
The opportunities for genuine two-way flows of information between citizens and government
are being made possible by the Internet
The phrase "off the record" means that media
are not allowed to print the information
The equal opportunities rule did not allow
a TV station to accept advertising only from the owner's favorite candidates
More and more, cable news seems analogous to
early partisan newspapers
Since 2009, most prominent weekly news magazines
have declined in recent years as much as newspaper circulation has declined
A story that contains no policy content and is not related to the day's events but that commonly discusses popular personalities and is designed to draw greater viewer interest is
infotainment
Evidence suggests that lower-income, lower-educated Americans learn more from news when
it includes information on the historical and factual background of issues.
In 2009, Representative Alan Grayson described on C-SPAN the Republican health-care plan as "stay healthy or die quickly" and swiftly raised over $150,000 from one website alone. The phenomenon of a fiery quote generating fundraising is known as
money blurt.
The traditional division of mass media into _________ has been made problematic by the Internet.
print and broadcast
The first media technology to make broadcast journalists into household names was
radio
Early regulation of broadcast media in the United States resulted from
radio station owners seeking to impose order on the use of the airwaves
General entertainment programming that often includes discussions of political affairs, such as The Daily Show, The Today Show and The View is called
soft news
One difference between media habits of men and women is that
women are more likely to get their news from television
In what year did the FCC repeal the Fairness Doctrine
1987
In 2010, the largest circulation by a daily paper in America was about
2 million copies
A country where the government heavily censors Internet news and search engines is
China
The _________ prohibits Congress from abridging freedom of the press.
First Amendment
The current debate about "net neutrality" concerns whether
ISPs should be allowed to charge people more if they consume a large amount of bandwidth.
Which president first provided space in the White House for reporters?
Theodore Roosevelt
__________ percent of surveyed adults indicated that they learned about the 2008 political campaign from comedy shows like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, or Saturday Night Live.
Thirty percent
The reasonable access rule required
broadcast stations to provide fair coverage of all views on public issues.
Most news printed about Congress comes from
congressional press releases and prepared reports
Private ownership of the media in the United States makes the American news industry
dependent on advertising revenues
Regarding the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC
does not have jurisdiction to regulate Internet content.
Crime rates have fallen in every major category (rape, burglary, robbery, assault, and murder) since the 1980s, but as one journalist said, "Crime coverage is not editorially driven; it's_________."
economically driven
A 2011 news analysis found that cable TV was particularly devoted to __________ whereas online news sites and newspapers provided more coverage of __________.
election coverage; foreign affairs
The now-abolished __________ obligated broadcasters to discuss public issues and to provide equal coverage of all opinions on those issues.
fairness doctrine
The first newspapers in the United States were
financed by political parties that advocated party causes
The media executives, news editors, and prominent reporters who decide which events to report and how to report them are known as
gatekeepers
During a presidential election, the tendency of journalists to limit coverage of campaign events to coverage of the candidate who leads in the polls at the time is known as
horse race journalism
One major influence of political blogs on American politics is
impacting the types of stories that get picked up by the "mainstream media."
The Internet was started
in 1969, with support from the U.S. Department of Defense
The "television hypothesis" is the belief that television
is to blame for the low level of citizens' knowledge about public affairs.
A feature story that is aired to a targeted listening audience by a media source that supports a specific advertiser of the network is an example of
market-driven journalism
A poll of Americans who had seen or heard of Michael Moore's 2007 documentary Sicko found that _________ changed their mind and said health-care reform was more necessary.
nearly half
Until the early 1960s, most Americans cited __________ as the source from which they got most of their news
newspapers
The term __________ refers to the tendency of journalists to adopt similar viewpoints toward news simply because they hang around together.
pack journalism
In the United States today, the mass media
provide a two-way channel of communication between the people and the government.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996
relaxed the rules governing media ownership
Most politicians and many scholars believe that the media's greatest influence on politics is its ability to
set the political agenda
Newspapers did not move toward independent ownership and large circulation until
the 1830s
So far, the only major paper with a long-standing successful practice of charging its online readers for content is
the Wall Street Journal
Content analysis of network news suggests that most coverage focuses on
the president
The televised presidential news conference has developed into an event in which
the president and other high-level officials deliver carefully rehearsed answers to anticipated questions
Officials send out __________ when they intentionally leak news to gauge the reaction of the public or other political leaders
trial balloons