Exam 9: Political Communication

Vietnam is described as the first television war.Shots of bodies and bloody GIs quickly had the American public up in arms.Despite the visual aspect of this conflict, public opinion turned on that war much in the way it did during the Korean War, on which there was no television coverage-as the casualties mounted.Assess the influence of visual media on public opinion.Does it heavily influence public opinion, as some critics suggest? Or is the public more affected by statistics and objective reporting?

How has television shaped the roles of political party organizations and leaders in nominating candidates for election?

Given its lack of tradition in objective reporting, __________ tend(s) to be wildly partisan.

The war in which country, which cost $1 trillion and 2,000 American lives, went largely ignored during the 2012 presidential election?

When large U.S.financial firms threatened to collapse in 2008, media coverage tended to favor the White House narrative that the nation was on the brink of another "Great Crash," ignoring the more critical story put forth by academic think-tanks.This is an example of how __________ have the upper hand in framing a story.

Radio usage has increased in popularity since 2003.

Franklin D.Roosevelt won support for his policies through which radio program?

Scholars have long recognized the dependence of politics on __________.

Which early U.S.president is noted for having said, "Were it left to me to decide [between government without] newspapers and newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

Recall one reason mass media yields a greater voter-opinion return than face-to-face communication.

Analyze the role of wire-service copy in generating content for local media.

In 2007, Talking Points Memo "jolted" the conventional media by reporting which of the following stories?

Identify the statement that supports the assertion that "Fewer Americans now are interested in news than they were one or two generations ago."

Assess the efficacy of narrow-angle coverage in framing a high-profile news story.

Coined by sociologist Erving Goffman, __________ refers to the basic line of a news story.

A nation's increased communication positively correlates with increased modernization.

Under many circumstances, increased media attention can favor an incumbent president; however, it can easily damage a campaign when __________.

Press conferences, committee hearings, official statements-and recently, YouTube videos-probably wouldn't receive much airtime except for television's lopsided schedule and its need to cover something.Critics call these phenomena __________.

9/11 produced strong media support preceding the 2003 Iraq War, leaving the public largely uncritical of President Bush.This is an example of a(n) __________.

Analyze the relationship between television viewership and group participation.