Media And Political Communication Test Bank Answers Ch.9

Chapter 9: Media and Political Communication

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. What is the function of a media aggregator?

a. to publish original articles by their own staff of journalists

b. to pick and choose from the reporting of others

c. to collect news stories from all political ideologies in one place

d. to report on breaking news only

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

2. The American system of democracy would be in serious trouble without ______.

a. a monopoly on news media

b. media aggregators

c. print media

d. the reporting of skilled journalists

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

3. Someone who gets their information from a newspaper subscription, Facebook, and the nightly news on television is experiencing ______.

a. information overload

b. media convergence

c. selective information

d. mediated citizenship

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

4. Roughly how many Americans access news from their smartphone or mobile device?

a. 25%

b. 50%

c. 80%

d. 92%

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

5. Which is a drawback of being a mediated citizen?

a. There is almost too much information available at any given time.

b. It is increasingly difficult to make a well-informed decision.

c. Increased time spent looking at screens is not healthy.

d. There is increased vulnerability to being manipulated.

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

6. What is the primary function of gatekeepers when it comes to media?

a. They decide the details about what news gets covered.

b. They confine their role to getting the facts of the story straight.

c. They interpret complex problems.

d. They report only via the Internet.

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

7. How is the gatekeeping today different than the gatekeeping at the time of the United States’ founding?

a. Gatekeepers around the time of the founding were nonexistent.

b. Corporations are the gatekeepers now, as opposed to the government at the time of the founding.

c. Americans are the gatekeepers now, as opposed to the government at the time of the founding.

d. The government has vastly increased its role as gatekeeper since the time of the founding.

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

8. A reporter like Ronan Farrow, who is digging for information into a certain claim, is what type of journalist?

a. investigator

b. gatekeeper

c. disseminator

d. general reporter

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

9. Which corporation has the highest value of media companies under its ownership?

a. Alphabet

b. Comcast

c. Verizon

d. Disney

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

10. The corporate nature of the American media has caused ______.

a. most newspapers to increase coverage of business news

b. advertisers to dictate the content of the news

c. newspapers to become remarkably similar

d. newspapers to become more expensive

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

11. The tendency of the media to make coverage and programming decisions based on what will attract a large audience and maximize profits is known as ______.

a. infotainment

b. feeding frenzy

c. commercial bias

d. narrowcasting

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

12. An article with an attention-grabbing headline intended to get readers to follow the link and read the article is an example of ______.

a. clickbait

b. entertainment

c. commercial bias

d. political bias

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

13. What is net neutrality?

a. making sure all political ideas are not on Internet sites that aren’t news sites

b. making sure all online media companies provide fair prices for internet access

c. allowing companies to place limits on how much Internet can be used per household

d. making sure providers cannot charge a premium for certain types of content to advantage others

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

14. What is the function of the Federal Communications Commission?

a. to make sure Internet service providers are not charging a premium for certain content

b. to ensure that radio and TV represent a variety of viewpoints

c. to break up newspaper monopolies

d. to censor any content that does not align with the government’s values or ideas

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

15. Reporters who focus solely on getting the facts out are known as ______.

a. gatekeepers

b. investigators

c. disseminators

d. mobilizers

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

16. Public mobilizers are journalists who ______.

a. focus on getting the facts out

b. dig for information and interpret its significance

c. make decisions about what should be covered

d. have an agenda to consider while informing people

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

17. Which is a factor that has contributed to the dwindling pool of journalists?

a. Everyone has been able to become a journalist in the age of the Internet.

b. It is increasingly easy to make money off their work without paying them for it.

c. Many people do not consider print journalism valid.

d. The attacks from President Trump have discouraged potential journalists.

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

18. A presidential speechwriter who then took a job as a syndicated columnist and later returned as a domestic policy adviser to a member of Congress would illustrate ______.

a. a feeding frenzy

b. a trial balloon

c. cyclical journalism

d. the revolving door

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

19. The term fake news is often used to ______.

a. control the narrative

b. legitimately call out disreputable sources

c. point out extremely biased news sites

d. motivate journalists to report facts

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

20. The phenomenon of news sites experiencing growth due to President Trump’s constant attention-getting behavior is known as ______.

a. the Trump growth

b. the Trump bubble

c. the Trump boost

d. the Trump kickstart

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

21. An example of ______ is when a journalist or producer decides what is important enough to become news and end up on the political agenda.

a. commercial bias

b. framing

c. spin

d. agenda setting

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

22. What is the essential goal of political narratives?

a. to convey all the facts of a situation or policy

b. to expose journalists for reporting fake news

c. to legitimize or delegitimize claims to political power

d. to tell a convincing story

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

23. What is the main purpose of framing?

a. to help get certain policies in the political agenda

b. to wait on the details of a new scandal

c. to tell a story with a certain angle and only some of the information

d. to investigate facts to provide context and a complete story

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

24. Which statement does NOT describe an effect of horse race journalism?

a. The media show politics as if politicians cared only about scoring victories off one another.

b. The media report on politics as if it were a game of strategy with no substance.

c. The media help citizens to understand the issues.

d. The media trivialize politics.

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

25. What is political spin?

a. when people use the revolving door for their personal advantage

b. deciding which pieces of information are the most important

c. using selective pieces of information and interpreting them to sound like something else

d. when politicians embellish on the facts for political gain

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

26. Excessive press coverage of an embarrassing or scandalous subject is called ______.

a. spin

b. framing

c. a feeding frenzy

d. priming

Answer Location: 9.5: How the Media Shapes Political Narrative

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

27. How did President Franklin Roosevelt change the way presidents communicated with Americans?

a. by addressing Americans through a series of televised speeches every month

b. by discussing the Depression, recovery, and war over the radio every week

c. by being the first president to broadcast the State of the Union Address

d. by visiting each state throughout his presidency for extended periods of time

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

28. The ability of politicians to reach out to Americans through social media has led to an era of ______.

a. the permanent campaign

b. increased framing

c. decreased spin

d. the living room president

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

29. Which is a characteristic of news management?

a. the elimination of sound bites

b. pared-down communications bureaucracy

c. decreased control of information

d. tight control of access to the politician

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

30. Choosing a topic and forming the conversation and all messages around that topic is an example of which news management technique?

a. tight control of access to the politician

b. tight control of information

c. an effort to bypass the White House press corps

d. prepackaging the news in sound bites

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

31. What is the benefit of prepackaging the news in sound bites?

a. It allows the politician to get on with his or her busy day.

b. It gives the politician’s staff control over what the media will report on.

c. It helps control the access to the politician.

d. It makes it easier to choose a line of the day.

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

32. A ______ refers to an official leaking a policy or plan in order to gauge public reaction.

a. coordinated leak

b. policy temperature

c. trial balloon

d. public opinion poll

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

33. To deliberately make people hate you, exploit crises, and not admit that you are wrong are all elements of ______.

a. the Trump bubble

b. the Trump Rules

c. news management

d. the Nixon strategy

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

34. Which statement is accurate regarding President Trump’s communications strategy?

a. It is unorthodox and hard to measure.

b. It is typical of a president.

c. It is more controlled and measured than a typical president.

d. It is centered on transparency and open communication.

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

35. What is a pundit?

a. someone who is in charge of the White House press corps

b. someone who moves from the public sector to the private sector

c. someone who is constantly receiving information through multiple channels

d. someone who observes and comments on political reporting

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

36. How do curated news aggregators harm the journalism industry?

a. by shutting out certain journalists

b. by making money from links to articles without actually writing them

c. by summarizing news stories for people to read quickly, eliminating the need for people to read entire articles

d. by keeping opposing political views off their platform

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

37. What is the least-used form of media for Americans to get their news?

a. radio

b. local television

c. smartphones

d. newspapers

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

38. Which company owns the ABC news network?

a. Comcast

b. Verizon

c. Time Warner

d. Disney

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

39. What is an advantage of being a mediated citizen?

a. the ability to seek out different points of view and pop the information bubble

b. the ability to be manipulated by carefully curated news sources

c. the ability to connect with and influence the thoughts of friends and family

d. the ability to fact check news sources with similar sites

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

40. ______ is the heart of the news industry.

a. Spin

b. Framing

c. Reporting

d. Bias

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

True/False

1. Commercial bias in the media is a result of growing concentration of corporate ownership of the media.

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

2. The tendency of public officials, journalists, and lobbyists to move between public- and private-sector jobs is known as the revolving door.

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

3. The way in which the media’s emphasis on particular characteristics of people, events, or issues influences the public’s perceptions of those people, events, or issues is called framing.

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

4. One of the effects of horse race journalism is that the media show politics as if politicians cared only about scoring victories off one another.

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

5. News aggregators help to stimulate the news industry and provide a boost for journalists.

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

6. Journalists who do not just report the news, but who have an agenda in mind and urge people to take action, are known as disseminators.

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

7. Although mediated citizens have an increased amount of information at their fingertips, they are still vulnerable to manipulation by the media.

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

8. Leaks about potential policies or plans are never good and always harm a politician.

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

9. President Richard Nixon changed the way presidents communicate with Americans by delivering weekly fireside chats during his administration.

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

10. Part of the “Trump Rules” is to place loyalty to the administration over skill.

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

Short Answer

1. Why was the Federal Communications Commission established?

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

2. List three of the major consequences of concentrated corporate ownership of mass media.

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

3. Briefly describe why news aggregators harm professional journalists.

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

4. Describe the revolving door process. Provide an example of someone who has utilized the revolving door.

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

5. List three characteristics of the Trump Rules.

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

Essay

1. Being a mediated citizen has its benefits, but it also has its drawbacks. Discuss what it means to be a mediated citizen in today’s America. What is an advantage of being a mediated citizen? What is a drawback?

Answer Location: 9.2: Where We Get Our Information

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.1: Understand where we get our information

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

2. What is commercial bias? Describe how such bias can be detrimental to journalism and how it can be balanced out.

Answer Location: 9.3: Media Ownership and Government Regulation

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.2: Understand how media ownership and governmental regulation impact the information we get

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

3. What are the four key journalistic roles? List and describe each one.

Answer Location: 9.4: What Do Journalists Do?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.3: Understand what journalists do

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

4. Describe the difference between framing and spin. Which is potentially more harmful to mediated citizens?

Answer Location: 9.5: How Those in the Media Can Shape Political Narratives

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.4: Understand how the media shape and perpetuate narratives

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life

5. Politicians want to be presented by the media in the best possible light. Discuss news management and the different techniques that politicians and their staffs use to control news coverage. How has news management varied between presidents?

Answer Location: 9.6: The Stakeholders Strike Back

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 9.5: Understand how politicians try to control the narratives themselves

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Describe the roles and relative importance of major entities and influences in American political life