Media Flashcards
What is gatekeeping bias?
tendency for the media, or a specific media outlet, not to report stories of a particular nature.
What increases voter turnout?
1) Face-to-face canvas
2) Text message & phone calls
3) leaflets
What is coverage bias?
tendency for the media, or a specific media outlet, to give less attention in terms of column space or airtime to certain kinds of stories or aspects of stories.
What is statement bias?
tendency for the media, or a specific media outlet, to interject opinions into the coverage of an issue.
What does Guess say ?
- majority of people seek out and consume online political news from across the political spectrum, which is moderate ideologically
- small portion of people consume extreme ideological content online that agrees with their political views
What does Lyons say ?
- 3 in 4 Americans overestimate their relative ability to distinguish between legitimate and false news headlines.
- Overconfident individuals are more likely to visit untrustworthy websites, fail to successfully distinguish between true and false claims , and report greater willingness to like or share false content on social media
The government has reason to believe that a story describing war strategy in Iraq to be published by The New York Times jeopardizes national security. __________ may allow the government to stop the publication of the story.
A. Prior restraint
B. The Telecommunication Act of 1996
C. The Security Doctrine
D. The Equal Time Rule
E. The Bush Doctrine
A. Prior restraint
A news organization of an incumbent president would exhibit _________ bias by reliably reporting the number of American casualties in a foreign conflict without describing the number of enemy casualties or military objectives achieved in combat.
A. Gatekeeping
B. Elite
C. Ideological
D. Coverage
E. Statement
D. Coverage
Which is most consistent with the agenda hypothesis?
A. An investigator who is only mildly interested in political news that does not influence his or her business interests primarily visits financial news Web sites that principally cover economic and business news.
B. A generally conservative individual watches a liberal cable news outlet to see “what the other side is up to.”
C. A liberal individual watches a liberal cable news outlet to see stories that match his or her predispositions.
D. A generally conservative person with little interest in politics happens to be exposed to some political new stories while he or she watches a local news broadcast to hear the scores of local sporting events and the weather report.
E. A person intentionally chooses to avoid political news coverage on television in general because he or she finds the style of modern broadcast journalism distaste
A. An investigator who is only mildly interested in political news that does not influence his or her business interests primarily visits financial news Web sites that principally cover economic and business news.
Which of the following would be an example of priming, in regard to the political media?
A. A group of benevolent robots comes to Earth to stop other robots from destroying the planet.
B. A news telecast focuses a story on a member of Congress who is running for office for a tenth term, putting primary focus on the member’s advanced age as a way to characterize the member as out of touch.
C. A news director decides to present a story on that evening’s telecast about a squirrel on a mini Jet-Ski rather than about conflict in the Middle East.
D. A sports reporter in Boston ends his telecast by yelling “Go Sox!”
E. A reporter takes a story about a war-torn country and focuses attention on the plight of refugees in the country rather than the parties at war.
B. A news telecast focuses a story on a member of Congress who is running for office for a tenth term, putting primary focus on the member’s advanced age as a way to characterize the member as out of touch.
Which of the following would be an example of framing, in the context of the political media?
A. Dr. Richard Kimble is accused of a crime he did not commit and goes on the run to prove his innocence.
B. A news telecast focuses a story on a member of Congress who is running for office for a tenth term, putting primary focus on the member’s advanced age as a way to characterize the member as out of touch.
C. A news director decides to present a story on that evening’s telecast about a squirrel on a mini Jet-Ski rather than about conflict in the Middle East.
D. A sports reporter in Boston ends his telecast by yelling “Go Sox!”
E. A reporter takes a story about a war-torn country and focuses attention on the plight of refugees in the country rather than the parties at war.
E. A reporter takes a story about a war-torn country and focuses attention on the plight of refugees in the country rather than the parties at war.
Which time period is NOT associated with an increase in the size of federal bureaucracy?
A. Era of Good feelings
B. Progressive era
C. New deal era
D. Great society period
E. Post 9/11
A. Era of Good feelings
