POSC 225 midterm NIGHTIGALE COLLEGE Question and answers 100% correct POSC 225 midterm
Took sides on partisan issues, politicians and parties would support their interest, circulated mainly among elites - correct answer Partisan press
Founded by Ben Daily, more politically independent - cor...
POSC 225 midterm
Took sides on partisan issues, politicians and parties would support their
interest, circulated mainly among elites - correct answer ✔Partisan press
Founded by Ben Daily, more politically independent - correct answer
✔Penny press
When do we see a shift where newspapers rely on advertisers instead of
subscriptions? - correct answer ✔During the penny press
Boosted circulation of newspapers, combines sensationalism and political
crusades with big headers and illustrations - correct answer ✔Yellow
Journalism
Dominant source for people to get their news - correct answer ✔TV
Who is TV for news more common among? - correct answer ✔Older people
Top social media site for news - correct answer ✔Facebook
Functions of mass media - correct answer ✔-Watchdog-
Make the Public's -Electoral Choices Clear-
-Provide Policy information-
Press should dig up facts and warn the public when government officials are
doing something wrong - correct answer ✔Watch dog
, Upside of corporate ownership - correct answer ✔Gains in efficiency and
availability
Downside of corporate ownership - correct answer ✔Less diversity of news
and opionion
Media profit motives - correct answer ✔Need to appeal to audiences, attract
ad revenues, focus on infotaiment
Themes in political news - correct answer ✔Conflict, negativity and scandal,
foreign coverage
Who has the most favorable view of the media? - correct answer ✔Older
democrats
Desire to gain an audience, journalists are bias on their emphasis on
infotainment - correct answer ✔Non ideological bias
Power to focus the publics attention - correct answer ✔Agenda setting
Media talks about immigration --> say people are asked if they approve or
disapprove of the president over all? --> views on how the president views
immigration affects their answer. This is an example of... - correct answer
✔Priming
How audiences assign blame - correct answer ✔Framing
Story about unemployment --> whether people ascribe unemployment to
individual laziness or the nature of the economy depends partly on how the
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