Title: CSU-POLS1101-Ch. 13 Flashcards | Quizlet
Headings: CSU-POLS1101-Ch. 13
CSU-POLS1101-Ch. 13
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Content: 1) Politicians could now speak directly to the public without having their ideas filtered through the media
2) People were tired of reading newspapers
3) Unlike with newspapers, everyone could afford a radio
4) It guaranteed that news reporting would be more accurate
5) It made news reporting less sensationalized
Politicians could now speak directly to the public without having their ideas filtered through the media
Most politicians like radio and television because these media: 1) Allow politicians to reach a broad audience without the adversarial questions of print reporters
2) Are inexpensive
3) Allow for interaction with audiences
4) Make politicians appear friendly
5) Do not give reporters the opportunity to ask questions
Allow politicians to reach a broad audience without adversarial questions of print reporters
A presidential speechwriter who then took a job as a syndicated columnist and later returned as a domestic policy advisor to a member of Congress would illustrate: 1) Press-politics integration
2) A trial balloon
3) Cyclical journalism
4) The revolving door
5) A feeding frenzy
The revolving door
One advantage of the Internet is that: 1) It is interactive to a degree that far surpasses talk radio or television
2) The news is less biased on the Internet than in the print media
3) Everyone has access to it
4) It has maximized the revolving door trend
5) It has lessened people's reliance on infotainment
It is interactive to a degree that far surpasses talk radio or television
______ is an example of infotainment. 1) Reporting on a peace agreement in the Middle East
2) A segment on the politics behind Social Security reform
3) Reporting the week's weather
4) Broadcasting the president's State of the Union address
5) Showing a police chase
Showing a police chase
Today, a majority of Americans believe that the media: 1) Spend too much time covering politics
2) Are biased
3) Do not cover the horse race in great detail
4) Rarely cover stories in which they are interested
5) Are fair and balanced in their coverage of politicians
Are biased
One of the problems in selecting the Internet as an alternative to the mainstream corporate media is that: 1) Not enough in-depth material is available
2) The reader must take a large amount of time and effort to find out which sources are accurate and trustworthy
3) Access to the Internet is too expensive unless you are in college
4) Commercial services like AOL censor much of the news
5) Few reputable sources are available
The reader must take a large amount of time an effort to find out which sources are accurate and trustworthy
When the media bring a news issue to the public's attention, thereby telling the public that this issue is important, the media engage in: 1) News control
2) Framing
3) News management
4) Agenda setting
5) priming. Agenda setting
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