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8. What is the term for the press that openly backs one party or another?

a. partisan press

10. In Arceneaux and Johnson's In the Age of Choice, News Media More Diverse, More Partisan, Less Inuential, the authors discussed how [t]he expansion of choices limits and blunts the eectsof partisan news media. In what two ways does the media expansion blunt the partisan eect?

a. First, partisan shows cannot directly inuence the vast majority of Americans who do not watchthem. Second, people must actively choose to watch partisan news programming. b. First, the vast majority of Americans do not watch news from any source. Second, people havelittle choice in what to watch; channel selections are limited. c. First, news outlets are not as partisan as many believe them to be. Second, most Americans donot hold partisan beliefs; they tend to be moderates. d. First, most Americans ip around between news networks; they are not loyal to one station.Second, the news networks all cover the same stories with the same ideological bias.

20. _____ is the process of selecting certain aspects of reality and making them the most salient part of the communication.

a. Framing

6. According to Arceneaux and Johnson's In The Age of Choice, News Media More Diverse, More Partisan, Less Inuential, what traits do people who watch partisan news shows tend to possess?

a. Generally, they have less of an interest in politics and very weak political opinions. b. Their political opinions are easily moved in any direction, liberal or conservative. c. Their political opinions are strong, extreme, and hard to move in any direction, liberal orconservative. d. They have little interest in politics, and their opinions are hard to move in any direction, liberalor conservative. idi-font-family

2. In the excerpt In the Age of Choice, News Media More Diverse, More Partisan, Less Influential,Arceneaux and Johnson conducted a series of what they call Selective Exposure Experiments.What can be concluded from the experiments?

a. People who are exposed to even brief moments of violence on television are considerably more predisposed to be violent. b. People who prefer news are subject to less influenced by partisan news shows than people who prefer to watch entertainment. c. Partisan news shows significant lower levels of political knowledge when compared to nonpartisan news sources. d. Many news channel choices helps to moderate the ideological and partisan opinions of the American public.

22. What is it called when the media alert the public of important developments soon after they happen?

a. Signaling function

19. Which institution receives the most news coverage from the national press?

a. The President

9. Which of the following defines framing?

a. The process of selecting certain aspects of a situation and using them as the framework for shaping the message.

3. What is the dierence between yellow journalism and objective journalism?

a. Yellow journalism's goal is to sell papers and grab attention; objective journalism reports facts, not opinions

14. This term is used to describe the media's ability to inuence what is on peoples' minds?

a. agenda setting

7. When Hillary Clinton was caught sending and receiving emails as Secretary of State from a private server, rather than the Department of State's secure server, the media reported on this. This is an example of the media's _____.

a. signaling function b. populist lens c. common-carrier function d. watchdog function

4. Regarding the media, what is the common-carrier function?

b. A means for political leaders to communicate with the public

17. Which organization services more than 90% of the nation's daily newspapers?

b. Associated Press

1. Citizens today have a high control over what they want to watch and see or not, what is this system called?

b. High choice media system

24. What is objective journalism?

b. Journalism based in the reporting of "facts" on what's "fair" for both sides.

15. Which of the following is primarily responsible for the regulation of broadcasting?

b. the Federal Communications Commission

12. Which of the following describes when the press stands ready to expose ocials who violate accepted legal, ethical, or performance standards?

b. watchdog function

23. Which of the following describes when the press stands ready to expose ocials who violate accepted legal, ethical, or performance standards?

b. watchdog function

25. What function serves as a conduit through which political leaders communicate with the public?

c. Common-carrier function

13. What type of journalism is based on reporting facts, rather than opinion, and represents both sides of a partisan debate?

c. Objective journalism

16. Which of the four functions used by journalists is performed largely in traditional media to alert the public about important developments as soon as possible?

c. Signaling Function

21. The average length of time that presidential candidates are shown speaking without interruption on television broadcasts. . .

c. has declined sharply since the 1960s

5. According to Johnson and Arceneaux, Fox News tends to tilt towards which political ideology?

d. Conservatism

18. What news source would Republicans more prefer to watch/listen to?

d. Fox News

11. Which technological changes contributed to the decline of the partisan press?

d. the invention of the high speed rotary press and telegraph.