Exam 10: Politics and the Media

During a presidential campaign, Alexander's campaign manager ran multiple television broadcasts that focused on the flaws in the stand taken by Daniel, Alexander's opponent, on immigration and unemployment. The broadcast is an example of _____.

Which of the following is true of news blogs?

How does the medium of television affect the presentation of political information?

A major problem facing news organizations is that readers or viewers of online newspapers and news programs are typically the same people who read the printed news editions and view the news programs on TV.

Online activists who support a particular candidate but are not controlled by the candidate's organization are known as _____.

What impact do the explosion of news sources and the emergence of citizen journalism have on politics and on the reporting of political news?

In _________, a television show or an Internet blogger publicizes facts or ideas that may influence how the public thinks about a particular issue. A) priming B) crowdsourcing C) microtargeting D) phishing

BNB Prime, a news channel, has started narrowing the focus of its news to a few cities in the United States. It hardly broadcasts any of the other major events taking place in the world. In this scenario, BNB Prime uses _____.

Which of the following statements is true of the public's belief of the press?

The United States Supreme Court upheld the _________ in a 1969 ruling; this doctrine was repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987. A) fair use doctrine B) good-faith doctrine C) fairness doctrine D) plain view doctrine

Podcasting can be defined as:

Describe the functions of a Web manager during political campaigning.

The courts have always supported broadcast media with freedom of expression.

Which of the following statements is true of the impact of partisan bias on reporting?

Which of the following is true of television?