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Journalism 190 Test Bank Questions with Verified Answers Latest Update (Already Passed) Where is the instructor's office? - Answers CF 278 Match the coursework and the corresponding percentage of your grade that it is worth. - Answers Quizzes - 10% Midterm - 10% Final - 10% Operationalize Assi...

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Where is the instructor's office? - Answers CF 278

Match the coursework and the corresponding percentage of your grade that it is worth. - Answers
Quizzes - 10%

Midterm - 10%

Final - 10%

Operationalize Assignment - 20%

Hegemony Assignment - 10%

Framing Assignment - 30%

Attendance - 0%

Discussion Board - 10%

Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Ideas of this course? - Answers Magazines

Who once wrote, "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is
but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And
a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge
gives." - Answers James Madison

All quizzes will be taken ... - Answers on Canvas from a computer of your choice.

Which day of the work week will we not meet in the classroom? - Answers Friday

Where will you find "Media Policies and Media Reform"? - Answers A chapter in The Problem of the
Media

Where will you find Chasing Ice? - Answers All of the above

Attendance is mandatory. - Answers False

On Canvas you should be sure to follow the Modules screen to navigate the course. - Answers True

"On balance," writes McChesney, "the media system has become ... a significantly ___________ force." -
Answers antidemocratic

According to McChesney, what power have dominant media firms used "shamelessly to trivialize,
marginalize, and distort opposition to the status quo"? - Answers The power to control news coverage of
debates over media policies.

,According to McChesney, "the crucial tension lies between the role of the _____ as profit-maximizing
commercial organizations and the need for the media to provide the basis for informed self-
government. - Answers media

"In this context, the term ___________ becomes somewhat misleading;" McChesney argues, "it means,
more often than not, government regulation that advances the interests of the dominant corporate
players." - Answers deregulation

"In a capitalist society, the requirements of political democracy do not compete on an equal basis with
the exigencies of the ______. Rather there is a bias toward the ______." - Answers market

"Recent research has again and again ___________ the notion that the intent of the free press clause in
the First Amendment was to empower individuals in the marketplace to do as they pleased, regardless
of the implications for society as a whole," points out McChesney. - Answers repudiated

According to McChesney, "The direct link between control over the _____ and control over the society is
self-evident." - Answers media

According to McChesney, "It would be difficult to exaggerate the power of the NAB as a lobby; in
addition to having money it also controlled access to the airwaves for ___________." - Answers
politicians

What, according to McChesney, is the truth about neoliberalism? - Answers Large government doling
out crucial contracts, monopoly licenses, and subsidies to huge firms in highly concentrated industries.

What was the first clear example of how concentrated press power could shape public debates over
media and communication policy? - Answers Newspaper support for keeping telgeraphy a private and
unregulated monopoly.

Which concept of liberty is involved in the answer to the question, "What is the area within which the
subject - a person or group of persons - is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be,
without interference by other persons?" - Answers Negative

Which concept of liberty is involved in the answer to the question "What, or who, is the source of
control or interference that can determine someone to do, or be, this rather than that?" - Answers
Positive

Which of the following is a watchdog function of the news? - Answers revealing what local government
is doing, revealing what private interests are doing, and the motivation behind the actions of local
government and private interests

In a neoliberal free market economy, what determines the right of news to exist? - Answers its ability to
pay its way

Which of the following is linked more fundamentallyto the news media's failure to deliver high-quality
news service? - Answers the practices of neoliberalism

, Which of the following is a consequence of the depreciation of the current business model of journalism
and the increasing commercial pressures on the industry. has contributed to - Answers the devaluing of
the pursuit of news journalism that is in the public interest, the decline of original newsgathering and
investigative reporting, and the decline of local news

Which of the following has led to the homogenization of news content? - Answers emphasis on
marketization

Which of the following is at the core of all policy considerations that continue to prioritze deregulation
over democracy? - Answers the market

Which of the following demonstrates that the Internet is not the democratic panacea that many believe
it to be? - Answers large traditional news organizations with a strong market position and extensive and
established news production infrastructure have responded to the current climate by investing heavily
in online platforms, empirical evidence shows that people use the Internet mostly for entertainment
purposes and online they are more likely to seek out only those fragments that are of particular interest
to them rather than the pursuit of news and current affairs information more generally, and issues of
the digital divide are still very much with us.

How did former FCC Chairman Mark Fowler suggest television should be regulated? - Answers Like any
other household appliance.

How does Jennifer Pozner describe the news practice that results from the influence of Fox News? -
Answers Who gets to shout the loudest

Why, according to Jennifer Pozner, are more and more minutes of the news devoted to gossip and
celebrity news? - Answers Because it's cheap.

What, according to Alice Walker, is the most common way people give up their power? - Answers By
thinking they don't have any.

Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population, yet comprise only - Answers 17 percent of Congress

Marie Wilson states the problem of media representation quite succinctly: - Answers "You can't be what
you can't see."

Which of the following is a possible path to regulating social behavior? - Answers markets, laws,
architecture, and cultural norms

According to McChesney, "virtually all theories of self-government are premised on having an informed
citizenry, and the creation of such an informed citizenry is the ______'s province" (p. 17). - Answers
media

"The degree to which people are unable to perceive or evaluate information independent of their prior
attitudes, beliefs, and needs, the source of the information, and its context." - Answers dogmatism

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