Question 1

How has the Internet affected the watchdog role of the media?

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A)   It has diluted the watchdog capacity with an overflow of opinions.
B)   It has expanded the watchdog capacity of the media.
C)   It has tainted the watchdog role with a partisan bent.
D)   It has almost completely usurped the watchdog role from the traditional media outlets.
E)   It has had little to no effect because it lacks the objective standards of traditional media outlets.F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has regulatory oversight over which of the following?

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A)   radio
B)   cable TV
C)   Internet content
D)   newspapers
E)   All these answers are correct.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 3

________ once said,"You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."

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A)   Joseph Pulitzer
B)   Theodore Roosevelt
C)   William Randolph Hearst
D)   Woodrow Wilson
E)   William McKinleyF) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

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 these answers are correct.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 5

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.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 6

Among the following,the news media are usually guided by events that

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A)   are timely.
B)   affect small numbers of people.
C)   occur in other countries.
D)   happen to ordinary citizens.
E)   are complicated to report.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 7

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.F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 8

The circulation battle of which two newspapers may have contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War?

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A)   Chicago Tribune and Boston Herald
B)   Los Angeles Times and New York Times
C)   New York Journal and New York World
D)   Gazette of the United States and National Gazette
E)   San Francisco Examiner and New York JournalF) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 9

What steps did the government have to take to regulate broadcast media,and why were those steps necessary?

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Question 10

In comparison with today's newspapers,early American newspapers

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A)   were written by hand.
B)   were so inexpensive that nearly everyone read a daily paper.
C)   could not have survived without political party support.
D)   were more widely read.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

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