Role of Voters/Mass Media (CE.5c)

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• Recognizing Bias

• Analyzing Election Results

• Holding Debates

• Conducting Voter Surveys

What is an important reason American voters should be able to detect bias and identify propaganda?

• All information contained in campaign literature is inaccurate

• The media plays an important role in the political process

• Political campaigns would not be effective without bias or propaganda

• Voters need to be able to make informed choices among candidates

The media plays a role in the political process by broadcasting____________

• Stories that are biased against third parties

• Only facts instead of opinions

• Only conservative ideas

• Different points of view

This campaign poster is most likely trying to_______________

• Identify a fact relating to the President

• Introduce a concern about the President

• Persuade the voters to re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Identify certain issues about the President

What do you call campaign statements that can be proven?

• Bias

• Opinion

• Propaganda

• Fact

The mass media plays a role in elections by

• Publishing op-ed pieces

• Publishing polling information

• Writing editorials

• Spreading propaganda

• Creating political cartoons

Which would best replace the question mark in this web?

• Analyzing election results

• Evaluating sources

• Conducting voter surveys

• Holding debates

What role is this newspaper playing in the election process?

• Publishing editorials

• Highlighting issues

• Providing a forum for voters

• Identifying candidates

What is one method responsible voters would not use to evaluate campaign messages?

• Identifying propaganda

• Reading editorials from one source

• Detecting bias

• Separating fact from opinion