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Staunch conservatives are MOST likely to pay regular attention to


A) MSNBC.
B) NPR.
C) the Daily Show.
D) Rush Limbaugh.
E) Fox News.

F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

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The news provides a refracted version of reality because it


A) emphasizes dramatic and compelling news stories.
B) is biased in favor of a Republican viewpoint.
C) is biased in favor of a Democratic viewpoint.
D) is biased in favor of a liberal perspective.
E) is biased in favor of a conservative perspective.

F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

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On-the-scene coverage of a natural disaster is an example of the press's role of


A) watchdog.
B) signaler.
C) partisan advocate.
D) common-carrier.
E) interpreter.

F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

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The reason the news product is designed to fascinate as well as to inform is because


A) news organizations are fundamentally businesses and must obtain revenue to survive.
B) of the high level of illiteracy.
C) the print media wish to emulate the broadcast media.
D) of the need to compete with Hollywood productions.
E) None of these answers is correct.

F) B) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Which region of the country overall has the LOWEST connectivity to the Internet?


A) West Coast
B) Northeast
C) Midwest
D) South
E) Plains states

F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

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How do the motivations of the press differ and often lead to a greater coverage of crime stories than the political process or world events?

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The concern of the press is with the dra...

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On both radio and television, the most successful partisan talk shows


A) have been hosted by liberals.
B) have been hosted by nonpartisan journalists.
C) have been hosted by conservatives.
D) have been hosted by teams of journalists holding multiple partisan viewpoints.
E) have had no discernible political bias.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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The term "framing" is used to describe the


A) media's ability to influence what is on people's minds.
B) process of selecting certain aspects of reality and then crafting news stories around those aspects.
C) media's obligation to convey a uniform and standard interpretation of a situation.
D) nature of media reporting when objectivity has weakened and the system has tilted in favor of yellow journalism.
E) primary right of the media that is protected by the First Amendment.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

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Identify the term partisan press. Why was it superseded by the objective press?

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A partisan press is one that concentrate...

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Which of the following broadcast news sources has seen its audience grow since the early 1990s?


A) ABC
B) CBS
C) NBC
D) NPR
E) None of these answers is correct.

F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

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What development brought about a dramatic reduction in television's capacity to generate an interest in news?


A) an increase in newspaper circulation
B) the loss of objective journalistic standards
C) the rapid spread of cable
D) the rise of Internet news consumption
E) a drop in education levels in the United States

F) A) and D)
G) D) and E)

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In comparison with today's newspapers, early American newspapers


A) were written by hand.
B) were so inexpensive that nearly everyone read a daily paper.
C) could not have survived without political party support.
D) were more widely read.
E) All of these answers are correct.

F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

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Among the following, the news media are MOST likely to focus on events that


A) are timely.
B) affect small numbers of people.
C) occur in other countries.
D) happen to ordinary citizens.
E) are complicated to report.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

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The FCC's equal time requirement


A) included the print media.
B) prohibited broadcasters from selling or giving time to political candidates and denying it to their opponents.
C) required broadcasters to give equal time to the two major political parties.
D) required broadcasters to give equal time to news programming and to commercial advertising.
E) required broadcasters to give equal time to third parties as well as the Democrats and Republicans.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Most successful Internet blogs


A) have a conservative bias.
B) have bolstered the strength of traditional newspapers by drawing on their stories as sources for material they post online.
C) have achieved the same kind of reporting access to government leadership that the major news outlets have traditionally had.
D) are beginning to mimic the impartiality and objective journalistic standards of the major media outlets.
E) have a liberal bias.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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In the 1960s, presidential candidates


A) received more negative coverage than they do today.
B) were largely ignored by the media.
C) were hounded by the media incessantly.
D) had longer sound bites, on average, in broadcast television newscasts.
E) None of these answers is correct.

F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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