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