chapter seven - mass media

Question 1

high-tech politics

Answer 1

politics in which the behavior of citizens and policy makers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology.

Question 2

mass media

Answer 2

events staged for the media and are significant because the media is there.

Question 3

press confrence

Answer 3

meetings of public officials with reporters.

Question 4

watergate and vietnam

Answer 4

filled skepticism towards the government in reporters and citizens minds.

Question 5

investigative journalism

Answer 5

the use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals and scams.

Question 6

thomas patterson

Answer 6

found that news coverage of presidential candidates were increasingly less favorable.

Question 7

print media

Answer 7

newspapers and magazines that are compared with electronic media.

Question 8

electronic media

Answer 8

televisions, radios and the internet as compared with print media.

Question 9

first american daily newspaper printed….

Answer 9

in Philadelphia on 1783

Question 10

citizens who read the news are…

Answer 10

most likely to be more educated than the average TV news watcher

Question 11

Popularization of the radio occurred in…

Answer 11

The mid-1930s

Question 12

when was the radio most used

Answer 12

during world war two

Question 13

televison…

Answer 13

took the nation to the war in vietnam in the 1960s

Question 14

the FCC

Answer 14

(est. 1934) was crated by congress to regulate the use of airwaves.

Question 15

who is the FCC being controlled by and face political pressure by

Answer 15

congress and the president

Question 16

right-of-reply rule

Answer 16

if a person is attacked on a broadcast other than the news, then that person has the right to reply via he same station.

Question 17

broadcasting

Answer 17

their signal is being sent out to a broad audience and the network itself takes/goes over a diverse section of topics.

Question 18

narrowcasting

Answer 18

media programming or the internet that is focused on a particular interest and is aimed at a particular audience.

Question 19

common criticism of cable news:

Answer 19

channels have failed to systematically cover political events and issues.

Question 20

columbia university study:

Answer 20

240 hrs of cables news during 2003

• prime role of reporter was to talk extemporaneously
• stories were frequently repeated

Question 21

chains

Answer 21

groups of newspapers published by media conglomerates and today accounting for over four-fifth of the nation’s daily newspaper circulation.

Question 22

trial ballons

Answer 22

intentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction.