Mass Media and Democracy

Question 1

What is the main function of the media?

Answer 1

Provide information and get involved in politics

Question 2

What is the oldest form of media?

Answer 2

Print

Question 3

What media reaches more Americans than any other?

Answer 3

Television/Internet

Question 4

What are the 3 main factors that affect news coverage?

Answer 4

Journalists, Source, and News Consumers

Question 5

What is a medium? (or media?)

Answer 5

A means of communication; it transmits some kind of information.

Question 6

What are the 4 major mass media that are important to politics?

Answer 6

Television, newspapers, radio, and magazines

Question 7

What is a public agenda?

Answer 7

Societal problems that political leaders and citizens agree need government attention

Question 8

What shapes public agenda?

Answer 8

Media

Question 9

What are short newscasts (about 35-45 seconds long) called?

Answer 9

Sound bites

Question 10

What year did the first presidential campaign commercials air on television

Answer 10

1952 (Eisenhower and Stevenson)

Question 11

A US Supreme Court decision that recognized the freedom of the press to be free from prior restraints on publications

Answer 11

Near Vs. Minnesota (1931)

Question 12

A legal term referring to a governments actions that prevent materials from being published

Answer 12

Prior restraint