A) have very little impact on politics because most people already have strong political opinions that cannot be shaped by news events.
B) influence the opinions of older Americans only because younger Americans are more skeptical of the information found on social media.
C) exaggerate partisan polarization among the mass public because people pick their own friend networks and can avoid disagreeable ideas.
D) minimize partisan polarization among members of the mass public because people are exposed to new ideas and sources of information.
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A) fairness doctrine
B) right of rebuttal
C) equal time rule
D) Communications Decency Act
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A) the relaxation of government regulations in the 1980s and 1990s.
B) government regulations enacted in the 1970s that required small media companies to
Sell their holdings to larger corporations.
C) the Supreme Court's decision in Red Lion Broadcasting Company v.Federal Communications Commission.
D) the federal government's decision to end the fairness doctrine in 1968.
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A) excluding the personal views of reporters or editors from their coverage.
B) including the personal views of reporters and editors in their coverage.
C) quoting only official government sources in their coverage.
D) quoting only nongovernment sources in their coverage.
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A) agenda-setting power.
B) framing power.
C) priming power.
D) indexing power.
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A) creating and maintain the WikiLeaks site.
B) leaking the Pentagon Papers to the press.
C) leaking the material that revealed widespread global surveillance programs by the
U.S.government and major telecommunication companies.
D) leaking information about the Iraq War to the press while serving as Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.
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A) President Nixon's repudiation of the Johnson administration's strategy in Vietnam.
B) investigations led by Washington Post reporters in 1972.
C) a leak by a minor Defense Department staffer.
D) a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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A) Agenda-setting; framing
B) Framing; agenda-setting
C) Framing; priming
D) Priming; framing
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A) advocacy journalism.
B) adversarial journalism.
C) citizen journalism.
D) fake news.
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A) advertising.
B) subscriptions.
C) government grants.
D) charitable donations.
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A) First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
B) equal time rule of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) .
C) right of rebuttal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) .
D) Fourteenth Amendment due process clause.
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A) Given that completely objective reporting is unattainable because people inevitably have biases that shape their understanding of events,journalists do not attempt to be objective and instead report only one side of a story.
B) While completely objective reporting is unattainable because people inevitably have biases that shape their understanding of events,journalists attempt to be objective by reporting both sides of a story.
C) Journalists are trained to be objective in their reporting,so their personal biases rarely matter and their coverage of events almost always succeeds in objectively presenting both sides of a story.
D) The Federal Communications Commission requires that all journalists sign a "pledge of objectivity" before being employed at a media company.
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A) the accuracy and objectivity compared to traditional media outlets
B) the depth of the information available online
C) the up-to-the-moment currency of the information available online
D) the convenience of getting news online
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A) all network news reports be balanced and fair-minded or they would be labeled editorials.
B) broadcasters who aired controversial issues provide time for opposing viewpoints.
C) all regulated newspapers establish a section of the editorial page for letters from readers.
D) all broadcasters provide candidates for the same political office with equal opportunities to communicate their messages to the public.
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A) it limits the ability of all news organizations to remain profitable.
B) it violates the First Amendment to the Constitution.
C) it increases the risk that politicians and citizens who express less popular or minority viewpoints will have difficulty finding a public forum.
D) it increases the risk of government censorship.
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A) radio
B) television
C) the internet
D) newspapers
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A) newspapers
B) magazines
C) internet websites
D) over-the-air television stations
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A) equal time rule
B) Fairness Doctrine
C) Diversity in Media Doctrine
D) Communications Decency Act
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A) news aggregation sites include content from a wide variety of sources and give no preference to American media organizations.
B) search engines automatically screen out information that might challenge or broaden a person's worldview.
C) journalists choose to cover only those stories that are acceptable to advertisers.
D) people intentionally expose themselves to perspectives that challenge what they already believe to be true about the political world.
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