Practice Game: Government 2305 Ch08 - The Media
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Practice game for govt 2305 chapter 8 - the media
Topics of this game:
- Which of the following is not a consequence of the concentration of media ownership?
- ______ requires Internet service providers to treat all data equally, without discriminating based upon content or bandwidth demands.
- Which statement accurately explains the historical decline of the partisan press and the rise of the penny press in the nineteenth century?
- In recent years, the media has tended to focus on infotainment and soft news. Why?
- Which of the following statements is not true about media bias?
- A TV news producer is tasked with confronting the accusation that her news program produces too much soft news. As such, she should run a story about
- News outlets may focus on the drama of the race rather than focusing on issue differences when they cover political campaigns. This tendency is called
- Influencing peoples’ interpretations of news, events, or issues through the presentation of the context is called ______.
- Shaping individuals’ interpretations of news or events by highlighting certain details or contexts is called ______.
- The media’s ability to highlight certain issues and bring them to the attention to the public is called ______.
- According to political scientists Harold Lasswell and Doris Graber, which of the following is not a function of the media?
- Which of the following is not an example of someone acting as a citizen journalist?
- Which of the following is true about government regulation of the media?
- Charles Pinckney from South Carolina at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 called for the inclusion of ______ in the original Constitution.
- The Rush Limbaugh radio talk show does all of the following EXCEPT ______.
- Which of the following is not a role played by the mass media?
- Which of the following is not an example of a “feeding frenzy” as described by political scientist Larry Sabato?
- Why was the release of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails so controversial during the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
- ______ played an important role in shaping colonial public opinion and mobilizing Americans to support the independence movement.
- Which of these puts the chronological development of the media in the right order from earliest to latest?
- The use of sensational headlines, cartoons and graphics, and emotional language to boost sales and profits for the media is called ______.
- Which of the following was not a factor in disseminating information in the 19th century?
- What early 1990s event placed CNN squarely on the news media map?
- Which of the following is the federal agency that oversees the national broadcast media?
- The historical significance of Orson Welles’s 1938 radio play The War of the Worlds was that it ______.
