POS 100 Chapter 6
In Congressional elections, it is quite possible that campaign coverage is affected by a(n) __________ among journalists
age gap
Advocates of dropping all FCC content regulations believe that
all regulations violate the First Amendment
More and more, cable news channels like MSNBC and Fox News seem analogous
early partisan newspaper
Local television covers crime more than any other topic. As one journalist said, "Crime coverage is not editorially driven; it's_________ driven."
economically
The Federal Communications Commission is a(n) _____ that is insulated from political control by the Congress or president
independent regulatory commission
Research on the impact of soft news finds all of the following EXCEPT
it can decrease people's levels of political knowledge
Edward R. Murrow earned his fame via _____ as he broadcast news of German air raids on London
radio
The first media technology to make broadcast journalists into household names
radio
Despite new technological options, and despite criticism that in its current form it polarizes politics in an unhealthy way, _____ of Americans listen to traditional AM/FM radio weekly
90%
Journalistic norms of objectivity and accuracy emerged mid-century, some say, because
lack of competition, allowing focus on quality rather than sensationality
The Internet was started in
1969, with support from the U.S. Department of Defe
The first newspapers in the United States was
financed by political parties that advocated party cause
When all media outlets are covering the same story and virtually every other issue gets ignored, the media is said to be operating in _____ mode
horserace
The text suggests that in the early days of radio, owners sought government regulation of the airways
impose order on the use of the airways
Counting both print and online users, news readership of newspapers
is up overall
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
The main focus of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was to
relax the rules governing media owners
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, competition for readers among the big-city dailies grew so fierce, that publishers started entertaining them with all of the following EXCEPT
objective news stories
