A) emphasizes dramatic and compelling news stories.
B) is biased in favor of a Republican viewpoint.
C) is biased in favor of a Democratic viewpoint.
D) is biased in favor of a liberal perspective.
E) is biased in favor of a conservative perspective.
G) A) and B)
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A) an increase in newspaper circulation
B) the loss of objective journalistic standards
C) the rapid spread of cable
D) the rise of Internet news consumption
E) a drop in education levels in the United States
G) D) and E)
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A) media's ability to influence what is on people's minds.
B) process of selecting certain aspects of reality and then crafting news stories around those aspects.
C) media's obligation to convey a uniform and standard interpretation of a situation.
D) nature of media reporting when objectivity has weakened and the system has tilted in favor of yellow journalism.
E) primary right of the media that is protected by the First Amendment.
G) A) and E)
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A) have a conservative bias.
B) have bolstered the strength of traditional newspapers by drawing on their stories as sources for material they post online.
C) have achieved the same kind of reporting access to government leadership that the major news outlets have traditionally had.
D) are beginning to mimic the impartiality and objective journalistic standards of the major media outlets.
E) have a liberal bias.
G) A) and E)
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A) West Coast
B) Northeast
C) Midwest
D) South
E) Plains states
G) B) and C)
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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 of these answers are correct.
G) A) and E)
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A) news organizations are fundamentally businesses and must obtain revenue to survive.
B) of the high level of illiteracy.
C) the print media wish to emulate the broadcast media.
D) of the need to compete with Hollywood productions.
E) None of these answers is correct.
G) B) and E)
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A) MSNBC.
B) NPR.
C) the Daily Show.
D) Rush Limbaugh.
E) Fox News.
G) A) and C)
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A) have been hosted by liberals.
B) have been hosted by nonpartisan journalists.
C) have been hosted by conservatives.
D) have been hosted by teams of journalists holding multiple partisan viewpoints.
E) have had no discernible political bias.
G) A) and D)
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A) watchdog.
B) signaler.
C) partisan advocate.
D) common-carrier.
E) interpreter.
G) A) and E)
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A) included the print media.
B) prohibited broadcasters from selling or giving time to political candidates and denying it to their opponents.
C) required broadcasters to give equal time to the two major political parties.
D) required broadcasters to give equal time to news programming and to commercial advertising.
E) required broadcasters to give equal time to third parties as well as the Democrats and Republicans.
G) A) and D)
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A) ABC
B) CBS
C) NBC
D) NPR
E) None of these answers is correct.
G) C) and D)
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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.
G) B) and C)
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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.
G) A) and E)
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