Civics SOL Review CE 10 The Media

When evaluating campaign speeches and literature you must be able to 

• separate fact from opinion
• identify propaganda
• detect bias
• all of these

One role of Mass Media in elections is 

• Emphasizing selected issues
• publishing gossip
• voting
• creating commercials

Public Agenda is influenced by the media in which of the following ways?

• focusing attention on selected issues
• voting
• running for public office
• using propaganda

One way interest groups influence public policy is by

• identifying issues
• contributing to campaigns
• lobbying government officials
• all of these 

Which is not an influence that the media has on public policy and policymakers?

• focusing the public attention on specific issues
• offering a forum in which opposing viewpoints are communicated
• holding government officials accountable to the public
• sticks to the political center on controversial issues

When evaluating campaign speeches and literature you must be able to 

• separate fact from opinion
• identify propaganda
• detect bias
• all of these

Letters to the editor of a newspaper influence public policy by -

• reporting the facts of a story without bais

• offering a forum for expressing opposing viewpoints

• lobbying government officials

• providing a way for people to volunteer