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The Watergate scandal broke and Richard Nixon was forced to resign largely due to which of the following?

The Senate investigation spurred by the "leaks" of "Deep Throat."

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.

What have presidents found that generates positive news coverage?

Foreign travel and visits to disaster sites

The news media

are the organizations that gather, package, and transmit the news

The medium of Internet communication

is conducive to the flourishing of a prisoner's dilemma between reporters and government officials

"Pack journalism" refers to

journalists repeating the same story because they talk to one another and validate each other's reporting.

All of the innovations in mass communication technology have

made the news more widely available to consumers.

Each technological change in mass communication has

made the news more widely available to consumers.

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.

What is the term for when the news media affects the criteria with which we evaluate candidates or elected leaders?

priming

The lessons of the Sago mine disaster for the mass media are that

reporters may be tempted to rely on one another's judgments about what is happening as informational shortcuts.

The relationship between politicians and reporters can best be described as

built on a tension between reciprocity and competition.

How have the courts played a vital role in protecting the media under the First Amendment?

by limiting government efforts to exercise prior restraint and limiting the press's exposure to libel and slander laws

When politicians participate in news making, they usually have one or both of two audiences in mind—the public and

fellow politicians.

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 proliferation of alternative media gives viewers the opportunity

to opt out of consuming political information all together.

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.

When politicians strategically give important information to the news media on the condition that its source not be identified by name, this is referred to as

a leak.

The role of blogs in today's mass media environment is

continuing to influence politics and journalism in important ways and providing entrepreneurs and media outlets with space to develop digital-only content.

To characterize the news media as businesses

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