Exam 7: The News and Social Media

The role of the press in monitoring government actions is known as which of the following?

The leading platform for social networking is which of the following?

Analyze how agenda setting affects public opinion.

Evaluate the concerns over media bias.

Which of the following is true of the Millennial generation and news consumption?

When politicians avoid public scrutiny or limit themselves to staged events, they are said to stay in which of the following?

President Theodore Roosevelt coined which of the following terms for journalists who engaged in investigative reporting that sought to uncover corruption and wrongdoing?

In January 2013, the government shut down as part of a sequestration. Some reports focused more on negative consequences of sequestration, while others discussed how Tea Party members of Congress pushed for fiscal responsibility. What aspect of agenda setting does this represent?

When a newspaper staff decides to put a news story about a senatorial race on the front page while putting an article about a local firefighter on page 7 of the paper, it is engaging in which of the following functions of the news?

An individual who posts outrageous things on blogs merely to get attention is sometimes referred to as which of the following?

When the media uncovers public wrongdoing and brings that wrongdoing to the public's attention, it is engaged in which role of the media?

Available evidence seems to indicate that most journalists and reporters have which of the following?

Analyze the impact of social networking, blogging, and the Internet on political campaigning.

What is the significance of the Supreme Court decision in New York Times v. Sullivan?

Analyze the government's history of regulation of media content, including rules historically used to regulate content and how different media outlets are treated.

When a news program begins the broadcast each day with a certain political story and continues to highlight this issue for several days, it suggests to the public that this political story is an important issue. Which function of agenda setting does this?

Why was the freedom of the press so important to the colonists and members of the Founding generation?

Which of the following began publication in Boston in 1690, had only a few pages and was more a pamphlet than a newspaper during the colonial era?

Which of the following is a potential problem with concentrated media ownership?

When reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein researched and revealed information about the Watergate scandal, they demonstrated which of the following media roles?