Exam 6: Political Communication: Mediated Constructions

Political conventions use visual rhetoric to sell their candidates.

Jurgen Habermas believed that mass media was doing a good job of reporting on the G. W. Bush administration.

In the book The Interplay of Influence, Jamieson and Campbell identified which mass medium as still the most influential one in politics?

The Republican Party has outstripped the Democrats with new technology in campaigns.

Explain media's agenda-setting function.

The Tower of Babel myth involves an explanation for:

The ideal relationship between government and mass media is best described as:

Political campaigns have some similarity to commercial product campaigns, but there are differences too. Which of the following points apply to political and not product campaigns?

Bernard Goldberg, a CBS journalist for 28 years, wrote about major problems, which are:

Entertainment shows have become fertile territory for politicians to get exposure.

Visual images cannot make arguments or claims, according to J. Anthony Blair.

An advertisement or video that spreads quickly across the Internet is called:

J. Anthony Blair analyzed which form of visual persuasion to demonstrate the precarious position of Czechoslovakia (sic) during World War II?

Goldberg said omerta is the sacred code of silence that gangsters and journalists live and die to uphold.

The Watergate break-in and political scandal involved President Lyndon B. Johnson.

According to Laura Ingraham, cultural elites uphold American values, traditions, and ideology.

When we refer to mass media as "the watchdog of the people," we are referring to which function?

Ronald Reagan was called the Teflon president.

Jurgen Habermas identified certain conditions that seemed to obstruct the ideal of true deliberation that threatened democracies. Explain Habermas's views on media and politics.

The YouTube Obama Girl who sang Crush on Obama is an example of a viral video.