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in 2004, the average sound bite of a presidential candidate shown on the nightly news averaged |
less than 10 seconds |
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in bias, former cbs news reporter bernard goldberg notes that |
real media bias comes not so much from which party the media attacks but as a result of how hournalists see the world |
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in its 240 hours of cable news programming in 2003, the columbia university project for excellence in journalism found that |
all of the above |
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news is what |
timely and different |
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newspaper chains are |
controlled by conglomerates hat ofter control broadcast media as well |
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public officials often leak ___ to reporters to see what political reaction will be |
trial balloons |
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since 1996, no single owner can own more than ____ percent of the broadcast market |
35 |
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tv became important in political campaigns beginning in |
1960 |
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tv coverage of the war in vietnam had the affect of |
brought brutality of war into american homes |
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the ___ stipulates that if a station sells advertising time to one candidate, it must be willing to sell equal time to other candidates for the same office |
equal time rule |
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the associated press is an example of a |
wire service |
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the cozy relationship between politicans and the press in the 20th century lasted until |
the vietnam war and the watergate |
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the fcc regulates communications via |
radio,tv,telephone,cable, and satelliete |
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the first telivised ____ occured during the 1960 presidential campaign |
presidential debate |
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the overriding bias in the news is towards stories that |
draw large audiences |
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the use of detective-like reporting methods to unearth scandalsis known as |
investigative journalism |
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thomas patterson found that media coverage of presidential candidates changed from a descriptive framework to a |
analytical framework |
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to a large extent, tv networks define news as what is ______ to viewers |
entertaining |
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todays news people work in an envioment of ___ towards government |
cynidism |
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what differentiates american media from its counterparts in other democracies? |
americas media is dependent on advertising revenues to keep buisnesses going |
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what is the purpose of FCC |
(all of the above)To prevent near monopolies of control over broadcast media,and to conduct periodic examinations of the goals and performance of stations as part of its licensing authority, and to issue a number of fair treatment rules concerning access to the airwaves for officeholders and candidates |
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wheras newspaper was sold for every 2 adults in 190, by 2008 one paper was sold for every __ adults |
5 |
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who are,generally the main antagonists in investigative journalism
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reporters and political leaders |
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with over 2,700 reporters,photographers, and editors ___ has more news gathering ability than any other news organization |
the asociated press |
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in 1934, congress created the __ to regulate the use of airways |
federal communications commision |
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following the first nixon-kennedy debate, opinion polls showed that |
those watching tv thought kennedy won, those listening on radio thought nixon won |
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examples of broadcast media |
radio,tv |
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sensational style of reporting ephasising corrupyion, war, violence, and gossip is |
yellow journalism |
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a news beat is |
territory a reporter covers |
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a majority of present day journalists belive that the most important thing that the media does is |
get info to the public quickly |
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yellow journalism refers to a style of reporting that |
focuses on violence,corruption,wars anf gossip often without reguards for truth |