Chapter 10

The news provides a refracted version of reality because it

The news media are MOST likely to focus on, among the following, events that

The term "framing" is used to describe the

Historically, the American press has shifted from

The Gazette of the United States was founded to promote the policies of President

In comparison with today's newspapers, early American newspapers

What technology led editors to substitute news reports for opinion commentary?

The yellow journalism of the late nineteenth century was characterized by

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

Yellow journalism contributed most notably to public support for the

Which of the following statements is true?

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

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

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

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

The FCC's equal time requirement

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

During the era of objective journalism, the commitment of newspapers to two-sided news reporting

Partisan talk radio got its start

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

On the-scene coverage of a natural disaster is an example of the press's role of

The media perform the signaling role by

Agenda-setting is an action that falls under which of the major roles played by the press?

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

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

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

Presidential candidates in the 1960s, compared with today,

The Watergate scandal illustrates the

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

Most broadcast news journalists

Scholarly research has shown that, overall, the traditional media have

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

MSNBC responded to Fox's ratings success by

One special contribution of Internet-based news is that it

The "long tail" is a phenomenon related to the

The rise of the Internet as a news source has

One consequence of today's high-choice media system is

What development brought about a dramatic reduction in television's capacity to generate an interest in news?

Which of the following is true of age differences in news consumption?

In terms of news consumption, since the 1980s young adults