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PLSI 2 Chapter 8 Quiz
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- PLSI 2
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- California State University - Fresno
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Quiz 8: The mediaQuiz 8 The media
1. A local station that broadcast national network programming is called a(n) ____ station.
- affiliate
2. Cable programming is often ____.
- national
3. A conglomerate is a corporation that ____.
- owns many businesses media networks
4. When acting as an agenda setter, the media ____.
- decides which issues deserve public attention
5. How can conglomerates censor information?
- they set policies that effect all organizations networks within the corporation, including policies not to use
certain actors or discuss certain topics.
6. In what ways is media responsible for promoting the public good?
- the media can provide information about government; the media can expose government wrongdoing; the media
can bring awareness to issues. ( All of the above)
7. Why is social media an effective way to spread news information?
- social media can allow citizens businesses to quickly forward information news to large groups of friends
followers
8. Newspapers durning the revolutionary war period tended to ____.
- unite the colonists provide information about the British
9. Muckraking occurs when newspapers ____.
- investigate problems in government businesses
10. Radio quiz shows comedy snows were most popular in the ____.
- 1930s
11. Television news became a regular feature during ____ due to the public 's dem for ____ to explain current events.
- WWII; images maps
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