Question 1

How do the motivations of the press differ and often lead to a greater coverage of crime stories than the political process or world events?

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Question 2

Most successful Internet blogs

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A)  have a conservative bias.
B)  have bolstered the strength of traditional newspapers by drawing on their stories as sources for material they post online.
C)  have achieved the same kind of reporting access to government leadership that the major news outlets have traditionally had.
D)  are beginning to mimic the impartiality and objective journalistic standards of the major media outlets.
E)  have a liberal bias.

Question 3

The news media's common-carrier role is based on the idea that

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A)  the news will be available to all citizens.
B)  various news organizations should interpret the news in nearly the same way.
C)  the press should not charge for public service announcements.
D)  the press should provide a channel through which political leaders can communicate their views to the public.
E)  the press should be patriotic in the reporting of the news.

Question 4

Scholarly research has shown that,overall,the traditional media

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A)  have a strong liberal bias.
B)  have a slight liberal bias.
C)  have no substantial bias.
D)  have a slight conservative bias.
E)  have a strong conservative bias.

Question 5

The FCC restriction requiring broadcasters to "afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views of public importance" was known as the

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A)  "Equal Time" rule.
B)  objective-reporting model.
C)  signaling function.
D)  common-carrier function.
E)  Fairness Doctrine.

Question 6

Which institution receives the most news coverage from the national press?

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A)  the presidency
B)  U.S.House of Representatives
C)  U.S.Senate
D)  U.S.Supreme Court
E)  the federal bureaucracy

Question 7

Objective journalism is based on the idea that the reporter's job is to

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A)  report the facts and cover alternative sides of a partisan debate.
B)  report what political leaders want them to report.
C)  discover what other reporters are saying and provide a uniform interpretation of events.
D)  scrutinize the partisan debate,and inform the news audience about which party has the better argument.
E)  All of these answers are correct.

Question 8

One of the reasons the reporting of national news is relatively uniform among news sources is that

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A)  the government dictates much of what is reported.
B)  there are only a few important events each day that merit news coverage.
C)  the network newscasts are brief and the day's top stories tend to dominate.
D)  reporters are not given much freedom by their editors.
E)  modern journalists have become fairly lazy and use mostly wire reports to create news copy for the network newscasts.

Question 9

One special contribution of Internet-based news is that it

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A)  provides the ordinary citizen with an opportunity to be part of the news system.
B)  provides slower,more deliberative reporting.
C)  offers more unbiased reporting.
D)  prevents rampant editorializing.
E)  None of these answers is true.

Question 10

In the 1960s,presidential candidates

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A)  received more negative coverage than they do today.
B)  were largely ignored by the media.
C)  were hounded by the media incessantly.
D)  had longer sound bites,on average,in broadcast television newscasts.
E)  None of these answers is correct.

Question 11

The federal government's licensing of broadcasting is based primarily on

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A)  the fact that broadcasting is a national medium.
B)  the scarcity of broadcasting frequencies.
C)  the fact that broadcasting was invented after the First Amendment was adopted.
D)  the desire of national officials to control the content of broadcast news and entertainment.
E)  a desire to censor reporters so that they will stop criticizing governmental officials.

Question 12

The Watergate scandal illustrates the

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A)  futility of media attempts to forecast political events.
B)  inadequacy of the media as a common-carrier to the public.
C)  power of the media to serve as watchdog to safeguard against abuses of power.
D)  ability of the press to serve as the public's representative in political disputes.
E)  abuse of power by journalists in the United States.

Question 13

Which of the following broadcast news sources has seen its audience grow since the early 1990s?

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A)  ABC
B)  CBS
C)  NBC
D)  NPR
E)  None of these answers is correct.

Question 14

Identify the factors that account for the relative uniformity in news reporting among major American news institutions.

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Question 15

CNN and MSNBC have responded to Fox's ratings success by

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A)  reducing the number of talk shows in their line-up.
B)  increasing the number of talk shows hosted by liberals.
C)  attempting to lure audiences by focusing on their unbiased news reporting.
D)  installing talk-show hosts with nonpartisan appeal.
E)  installing talk-show hosts with partisan or hard-edged appeals.

Question 16

In contrast with some European news media,the main television news networks and the newspapers in America are MORE likely to

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A)  guide readers by providing ideological interpretations of current events.
B)  play a partisan role by taking sides in political debate.
C)  act primarily as neutral transmitters of information.
D)  use yellow journalism.
E)  None of these answers is correct.

Question 17

Over the last century,which newspaper has had a lasting reputation as the country's best newspaper?

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A)  Washington Times
B)  Miami Herald
C)  Los Angeles Times
D)  New York Times
E)  Chicago Tribune

Question 18

Which of the following statements has been shown by scholarly research to be true?

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A)  Network journalists have a very substantial liberal bias.
B)  Network journalists have a very substantial conservative bias.
C)  Network journalists have a clear Republican bias.
D)  Network journalists have a clear Democratic bias.
E)  Network journalists tend to be negative.

Question 19

The rise of the Internet as a news source has

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A)  substantially increased the partisan divide.
B)  led to a small but significant increase in the partisan divide.
C)  led to a small but significant decrease in the partisan divide.
D)  substantially decreased the partisan divide.
E)  had no appreciable impact on the partisan divide.

Question 20

The reason the news product is designed to fascinate as well as to inform is because

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A)  news organizations are fundamentally businesses and must obtain revenue to survive.
B)  of the high level of illiteracy.
C)  the print media wish to emulate the broadcast media.
D)  of the need to compete with Hollywood productions.
E)  None of these answers is correct.

Exam 10: The News Media: Communicating Political Images

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