chapter 7

the power the media have to bring public attention to a particular issue is knwon as

• agenda setting

• framing

• priming

• gatekeeping

priming refers to the

• bias that news organizations show toward covering dramatic and enteraining stories

• process of preparing the public to bring specific criteria to mind when evaluating a politician or issue

• tendency that people have to seek out new sources that confirm their prior beliefs about politics

• fact that many important news stories go uncovered by the mainstream media

the fact that journalists referred to the obama administrations health care initiative as "reform" instead of as "health care rationing" an example of

• agenda setting

• framing

• sound bites

• adversarial journalism

despite its widespread availability _____ typically reports on the narrowest range of topics and provide the least depth of news coverage

• radio

• televesion

• the internet

• newspaper

during the last decade, the number of newspaper journalists working in the US has

• grown by more than 50%

• decreased by 50%

• decreased by 10%

• remained constant

the practice of training reporters to produce a standardized, seemingly neutral news product was the result of

• strikes and boycotts by journalists and newspaper readers during the early 1900s

• the newspaper industry realization that the best way to make profit was to appeal broad audiences

• federal government regulations that made blatant instances of media bias illegal

• state governments regulations that made blatant instances of media bias illegal

which of the following news sources reached the most americans

• radio

• television

• the internet

• newspaper

google news, reddit, and real clear politics are good example of

• nonprofit journalism

• the penny press

• news aggregators

• niche journalism

the gap in access to the internet due to differences in education, income, age, geographic location, and race/ethnicity is known as

• the digital divide

• the digital monopoly

• digital citizenry

• citizen journalism

news produced by individuals and organizations who are not employed as professional journalists is called

• advocacy journalism

• adversarial journalism

• citizen journalism

• fake news