SOL Review CE 10 Public Policy

All of the following are ways the media plays important role in setting the public agenda expect.

• Focusing public attention on selected issues

• Offering a forum in which opposing viewpoints are communicated

• Holding government officials accountable to the public

• Telling the public what to think

Government officials use the media to ____________ with the public.

• communicate

• media

• influence

• share

Please select all of the correct strategies for evaluating media.

• Separating fact from opinion

• Lobbying public officials

• Detecting bias

• Evaluating sources

• Identifying propaganda

Seeking to influence legislators to introduce or vote for or against a bill is know as _______________.

• PACs

• Influencing

• Lobbying

• Propaganda

Participating in politics (e.g., voting, campaigning, seeking office) and joining interest groups are ways individuals can influence ____________ ____________.

• public policy

• public opinion

• public contributions

• public attitude

Individuals and interest groups influence public policy in all of the following ways except.

• Identifying issues

• Making political contributions

• Lobbying government officials

• Expressing opinions

• Creating Op-Eds

Identifying issues, making political contributions, lobbying government officials and expressing opinions are all ways that ___________ and ____________ influence public policy.

• Individuals and Interest Groups

• Individuals and People

• Individuals and Countries

• Individuals and Pets

A person who seeks to influence legislators to introduce or vote for a bill in known as _______________.

• Judge

• Manager

• Lobbyist

• New Anchor

Which of the following is not an type of interest group.

• Public Interest Groups

• Economic Interest Groups

• Private Interest Groups

• Ideological Interest Groups

• Single-Issue Groups

When watching a political ad on YouTube it is very important that you evaluate the ad using all the following strategies except.

• Separate fact from opinion

• Detect Bias

• Believe everything you see

• Evaluating sources

• Identify propaganda