Mass Media

What is NOT a factor that influences Public Opinion?

• Person's Background

• Mass Media

• Interest Groups

• Direction

What is one key role Public Opinion plays in a Democracy?

• Shapes Decisions

• Mass Media

• Intensity

• Direction

What feature of Public Opinion involves how strongly a person feels about a topic?

• Personal Opinion

• Intensity

• Social Media

• Point of View

Television, social media, radio, and ads are all part of what factor in Public Opinion?

• Support

• Shaping Decisions

• Mass Media

• Stability

What do we usually use when there is a political problem?

• Public Opinion Polls

• Surveys

• Elections

The ideas and attitude that people hold about an issue or person is called what?

• Mass Media

• Public Opinion

• Cheeseburger

• None of the above

Interest Groups are what?

• all of the above

• a group of people lining up at the White House for dinner.

• people help defining where aliens live.

• people sharing a point of view about an issue.

Surveys in which people are asked to show their thoughts on a particular topic to get a vote on something is what?

• Public Opinion Polls

• Television

• Mass Media

• Public Agenda

What is libel?

• written unruths that are harmful to someone's reputation

• to admit

• favoring one view

• evil intent

What is the role played by a media organization that exposes illegal practices or waste?

• prior restraint

• regulatory

• watchdog

• libel